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Oberlin College in Ohio begins allowing women to attend it
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Around 20 percent of all college students at the time were women.
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More than 1/3 of college students are women at the time
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A census counted 412 female artists in 1870
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Susan and three of her sisters, register to vote illegally, vote and get arrested by the government
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Supreme Court says that even though women are US Citizens, they aren't allowed to vote
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Prohibition group Woman's Christian Temperance Union gets a new leader and spreads her influence to stop alcohol.
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It wanted state governments to begin allowing women to vote instead of having the national government try
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This groups motivation was to make national government allow women to vote and have the states follow suit
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Some Prominent members include Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington.
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Willard isn't leader of the WCTU anymore
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A census counted 11,207 female artists working for newspaper companies
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Carry Nation would take a hatchet, walk into saloons and smash them up, and urged other women to follow suit with her
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Congress banned the distribution of alcohal
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The new amendment banned the selling and production of alcohol in the US.