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Women became involved with making a better society since they were finding more opportunities in education and employment.
Women became involved with making a better society since they were finding more opportunities in education and employment. -
Jobs opportunities for women who were from the middle class and were educated expanded in the late 1800s.
They had jobs such as nurses, teachers, bookkeepers, typists, shop clerks, and secretaries. -
Oberlin College starts accepting female college students.
Oberlin College starts accepting female college students. -
American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) is founded.
The AWSA focused only on winning the right vote on a state-by-state basis. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) is formed.
The NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. They also dealt with other issues that concerned women such as labor organizing. -
Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the right to vote.
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About 20 percent of college students were women by 1870
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Susan B. Anthony tests the law.
Anthony and her three sisters staged a protest in which they registered to vote. On Election Day they voted in Rochester, New York. They were later arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States. -
The Supreme Court ruled that citizenship does not gie women the right to vote, even though women were technically citizens.
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The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) is founded.
The NACW was founded because African-American women were not allowed to join most reform organizations and because of discrimination. Some prominent members of the NACW were Ida B. Wells-Barnette, Margaret Murray Washington, and Harriet Tubman. -
The American Medical Association began admitting women.
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The NACW has more than 100,000 members.
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18th Amendment
Congress proposed the 18th Amendment which banned the manufacturing, selling, and distributing of alcoholic beverages. -
States ratify the 18th Amendment
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The Prohobition Movement involved the banning of making, selling, and distributing of alcoholic beverages.
The Reformers believed that alcohol was responsible for causing crime, poverty, and violence towards women and children. -
18th Amendment is repealed.