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Women have been around since forever
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Alcohol gains popularity and a rise in drunkness is seen.
The evils of alcohol are preached against by Reverend Lyman Beecher. -
Temperance Movement
The Temperance movement was a movement for the prohibition of alcohol. Americans at this time were immensely drunk.The consumption of liquor was over the ROOF, being 180 per capita liquor consumption which was 7 gallons per year more than usual(2x more than now) not including wine, beer, Zima, hard cider, pruno. -
Women Suffrage Movement
Women were thought to be "property" of their dad or husband. Husbands held authority over the person, property, and choices of their wives. Women had little to no rights. The higher the social class, the higher the restriction on women. Women were allowed access to education so they could teach their children. Cult of domesticity decreed that a woman's place was in the home and to provide love, friendship, and mutual obligation to man. Most women wanted the right to vote for alcohol purposes. -
Women's Convention
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton hold a women's convention after being denied entrance from a World Anti-Slavery Convention which was held in London. -
First step towards prohibition
The first state law prohibiting the sale of alcohol is adopted by Maine. -
Women Rights Convention
The first women's right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This convention led to the launching of the women's suffrage movement -
New York State Women's Temperance Society
The New York State Women's Temperance Society was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. -
The American Equal Rights Association is formed
Formed by Stanton and Anthony this organization covered suffrage for all regardless of gender or race. -
Civil War Ends
Full prohibition of alcohol so ZERO alcohol consumption becomes the goal due to the "fearful quarrels and brutal violence." -
National Prohibition Party Organized
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The Women's Suffrage movement starts to shift views
The movement started to focus on blacks more than they did women. -
WCTU was founded
Women Christian Temperance Union was founded in 1873 in Cleveland, Ohio. It was seen as ladylike and a respectable way for women to be involved into the women's rights movement. -
Women Suffrage Vs. Congress
The U.S. Congress is proposed a women suffrage amendment which is later taken on in the Senate and defeated. -
Anti-Saloon League was founded
Reverend Howard Hyde founded the Anti-Saloon League in Oberlin, Ohio -
Woman Suffrage is taking new heights
Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party support woman suffrage; it is being supported at the national level by a major political party for the first time. -
Organizations UNITE
The WCTU and Anti-Saloon League march at Washington, DC demanding an addition of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution. -
Women CAN vote
The 19th amendment is ratified by three quarters of the state legislatures. -
Prohibition of Alcohol Repealed
