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First College Accepts Women
Oberlin College in Ohio begins allowing women to attend it -
Women's attendance at college climbs
Around 20 percent of all college students at the time were women. -
Women's attendance grows even further
More than 1/3 of college students are women at the time -
Journalism Business and Women
A census counted 412 female artists in 1870 -
Susan B Anthony takes a stand
Susan and three of her sisters, register to vote illegally, vote and get arrested by the government -
Supreme Court lays down law
Supreme Court says that even though women are US Citizens, they aren't allowed to vote -
Frances Willard comes to power for the WCTU
Prohibition group Woman's Christian Temperance Union gets a new leader and spreads her influence to stop alcohol. -
AWSA was formed
It wanted state governments to begin allowing women to vote instead of having the national government try -
The National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed
This groups motivation was to make national government allow women to vote and have the states follow suit -
National Association of Colored Women
Some Prominent members include Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington. -
Frances Willard's leadership ends
Willard isn't leader of the WCTU anymore -
More Female Artists joined the journalism business
A census counted 11,207 female artists working for newspaper companies -
Carry Nation began her mission
Carry Nation would take a hatchet, walk into saloons and smash them up, and urged other women to follow suit with her -
Congress Passed the Eighteenth Amendment
Congress banned the distribution of alcohal -
The States ratify the new Amendment
The new amendment banned the selling and production of alcohol in the US.