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Women Get Into College
Women were first admitted into the college of Oberlin. -
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Life is Changing For Women
Women were finding more opportunites for education and employment. -
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Employment Opportunities
Job opportunites for educated middle class women expanded. Women worked as teachers and nurses. -
Women Organize
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -
AWSA was founded
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AWSA and NWSA
AWSA focused manily on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis -
Number of Women in Oberlin College
About 20 percent of all college students were women. -
Susan B. Anthony Test the Law
She testified before every Congress between 1869 through 1906 on behalf of womens suffrage. -
The Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
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Prohibitation
Francs Willard headed the WCTU. He made the WCTU a powerful force for temperance and rights for women. -
NACW
The largest organization of African American was founded. This included Ida B. Wells Barnett and Margarnet Murray Washington. -
Numbers Increased For Women
By the 1900s the number of women increased by one third. -
Job Market Arises
11,207 female artisits, up from 412 in 1870. -
Prohibitation pt.2
Carry Nation took her campain right to the source. She smashed up saloons in Kansas and urged other women to do the same. -
Prohibitation pt.3
Congress proposed the 18th admendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distrubition of alcoholic beverages. -
18th Admendment
Prohibits the distrubition of alcoholic beverages, in 1933 the 18th admendment was repealed.