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In the 1800s women were finding more opportunities for education and employment. They sought to use their talents and skills to make life better for others and themselves. In the process women became a greater political force.
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Job opportunities for educated middle-class women expanded in the late 1800s. Women worked as teachers, nurses, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. Buissnesses like newspaper and magezines began to hire more and more women as artists and jounalists.
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It was not until 1833, for example, a college in Oberlin Ohio began admitting women as well as men in. In 1870 abo]ut 20% of college students were women in 1900 more than 1/3. Most of the women who attended college at this time were members of the middle or upper class they wanted to be able to use their knowledge and skills. Many professional oppriotunites were still denied them.
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The goal of this was to stop lynching and to get the better rights for women the AWAS goals were to get the right to vote.
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In 1872 she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on election day they voted in New York.Two weeks later they were unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.
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- In 1875 The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. The Court decided it was up to the states to grant or withhold that right.Suffrage associations therefore continued their strategy of trying to persuade each state legislature to grant women the vote.
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Many African American women discovered that they were not welcomed in most reform organizations. So they formed their women called NACW. The organization included some of the most prominent women in the African American community like Ida B. Wells and Harriet Tubman.
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In 1917 congress proposed the 18th amendment that prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages but it proved so unpopular that it was repealed in 1933
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The Prohibition movent, which called for a ban on making and selling and distributing alcoholic beverages. The reformers believed alcohol drinks were responsible for crime, property, and violence against women and children.