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Oberlin college began admitting women
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The NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote
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The AWSA focused on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis
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20 percent of all college students were women
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The number of jubs for women expanded
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The prohibition movement called for a ban on makig, selling and distibuting alcoholic bevarages
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Women were finding more opportunities for education and employment
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Public life began to change the way many middle-class women viewed their world
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Reformers believed alcohol was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children
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Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters registered to vote, and on Election Day they voted. Two weeks late they were arrested for "knowingly,wrongfully and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.
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The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote
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The National Association of Colored Women was founded
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray and Harriet Tubman were some prominent members of the organization
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The NACW was created because black women were not accepted into must reform organizations
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The number of female college students increased to one-third
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The eighteenth amendment was created to prohibit the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
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The eighteenth amendment was ratified by the states
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The 19th amendment gave all American women the right to vote
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The eighteenth amendment was repealed