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Growth of Women's Rights
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Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted "Declaration of Sentiments" -
Women's Rights convention
First of the annual conventions held in Boston to discuss educational rights, equal pay for equal work, marriage reform, and property rights for women * not held in 1857, 1861-1865 -
Helen Magill
Helen was the first female to enroll and attend the Boston Public Latin School -
Lincoln elected
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South Carolina secedes
In response to Lincoln winning the presidency, South Carolina secedes from the Union -
Ft. Sumter attacked
The Confederacy attacks Ft. Sumter starting the Civil War -
Clara Barton helps the Union
Ms. Barton received pernission from the Quartermaster, Daniel Rucker, to work on the front lines as a nurse -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's proclamation that freed all slaves in the Confederacy, but not in the Border States -
13th Amendment
this amendment freed all slaves in the USA and abolished slavery -
Lucy Stone and Susan B Anthony join forces create AERA
Ms. Stone and Ms. Anthony suggest that women and African Americans establish an organization to work toward universal suffrage and create the American Equal Rights Association with Elizabeth Stanton and Frederick Douglass -
"The Revolution"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony begin publishing their radical periodical of women's rights
motto: "Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less." -
14th Amendment
Based on the wording of this amendment that made all people born in the USA citizens, the words "citizens" and "voters" were defined as "male." -
NWSA created
founded by Stanton and Anthony to begin the long struggle for women's rights -
AWSA created
in response to the founding of the NWSA, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia W. Howe form their organization to help women and blacks -
Wyoming gives women the vote
To help WY work its way toward gaining statehood, they give women the right to vote -
Arabella Mansfield
first woman admitted to the bar in Iowa and allowed to practice law -
Myra Bradwell
She was denied admission to the IL state bar... took her case to the US Supreme Court and they affirmed that states could restrict women from the practice of ANY profession to uphold the law of the Creator. -
first woman baliff, jury and justice of the peace
Wyoming -
15th Amendment
gives black men the right to vote. Important to note that according to the wording of the Amendment that women were not excluded from this right, but states made sure their votes were not allowed in. -
Charlotte E. Ray
She was an African American woman and the first to graduate from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar. Ms. Ray was also the first woman permitted to argue cases before the US Supreme Court. -
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Thanks to the efforts of Belva Lockwood (a lawyer in Washington, D.C.), Congress passed a law giving women federal employees equal pay for equal work. -
Comstock Act of 1873
This federal law made it illegal to send any "obscene" materials through the mail; this included contraceptive devices and abortion materials to educate women. -
Helen Magill White
She was the first woman to earn her Ph.D. from a college in the USA, a doctorate in Greek from Boston University
