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Women suffrage
From this time the women began to realize that they wanted more rights, especially the right to vote. Women get better education and employment opportunities, they join the Prohibition movement and they are able to vote. -
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Employment
Women worked as teachers, nurses, bookkeepers, typists, secretaries and shop clerks. -
Better Education
Oberlin College became one of the only colleges that let women into their college. After this happened more and more colleges started to admit women into their colleges. Most women that actually went to college were in the upper or middle class. -
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention wanted equal rights for women. It was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -
Differences between AWSA and NWSA
The NWSA wanted Victoria Woodhull (first woman presidential candidate in 1872) to win the election. The AWSA only wanted the right to vote. -
Susan B. Anthony tests the law
In 1872 she and her three sisters registered to vote and voted then she was later arrested and brought to court. -
Supreme Court Decision
In 1875 the Supreme Court ruled that even though women had citizenship it did not give them the right to vote. -
National Association of Colored Women
In 1896 the NACW was formed because most reform organizations wouldn’t let in colored women so they made their own organization. -
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The Prohibition Movement
The Prohibition movement wanted to make a ban on making, selling and distributing alcoholic beverages. They believed alcohol was mostly responsible for crime, poverty and violence against children and women. -
The Eighteenth Amendment
It was a ban on making, selling and distributing alcohol. It was very disliked so it was repealed in 1933.