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Women Jobs
Job opportunities for educated middle-class women expanded in the late 1800s. Women worked as teachers and workers. -
College
Oberlin is 1st college to admit women -
Students
By 1870, about 20 percent of all college students were women -
AWSA & NWSA
The NWSA campaigned for the constitutional amendment to give women the vote. While AWSA focused exclusively on winning the right on a state-by-state basis. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan wrote pamphlets and made speeches. She also testified before every Congress between 1869 and 1906 on behalf of women suffrage. In 1872, she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on Election Day, they voted in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later they were arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully." Voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States. -
Supreme Court
The court decided it was up to the states to grant or withhold that right. -
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Prohibition movement
Called for a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reformers believed alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty and violence against women and children. -
National Association of Colored Women
The National Association of Colored Women included some of the most prominent women within the African American community, such as antilynching activist Ida B. Wells- Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington of the Tuskegee Institute -
Number increased
The number of women as college students increased to more than one third -
18th Amendment
The states ratified the amendment 1919. The 18th amendment was so unpopular however, that it was repealed in 1933