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Women basically had no rights in the early 1800s and even before that. Females at that time was controlled by men all their life. Females only basically lived to find a husband and reproduce. When married, the woman's husband owned everything. So the female had NOTHING to herself. Women had no other job back then except being a mom, housekeeper, and a worker. But the only jobs they had as a worker as a lower-class women is being a servant, seamstress, washer woman, and not a whole lot others
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This is the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement. It all started when Elizabeth Clady Stanton decides to have a tea party with a group of her friends. When conversatining, some brings up the subject about women. When Stanton starts to pour her heart out about this problem, the women decide to have a convention about women rights.
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Since there is not an exact date to when the National Woman's Right's convention, I put down Jan. 1. But researchers do know that the convention started in 1850 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Some of the things spoke against is:
~ Married Women had to hand all of their property to her husband
~ There were not any colleges that accepted women into their schools (well not yet anyways!)
~Women weren't allowed to vote
~When female worked, they only earned a fraction of what men would earn
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Again, there is not an exact date for when Susan B Anthony wrote the 19th Amendment , or the Anthony Amendment. But the is an exact date on when Congress accepted the amendment, which is June 4, 1919. When the amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
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Wyoming becomes the first state in the United States of America to allow women sufferage!
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(Not exact day and month) By 1914, all of the western region on the U.S has accepted women suffferage.
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The women had won! They have the right of equality and the right to vote!