Women's Suffrage: The Women's Movements

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  • Employment Opportunities

    Women worked as teachers, nurses, bookkeepers, typists, secretaries and shop clerks.
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    Women's Suffrage Movement

  • Higher Education

    Oberlin College began admitting women as well as men.

  • National Women's Suffrage Association

    Susan B. Anthony formed the NWSA which was like the AWSA except the AWSA wanted to do it on a state by state basis.

  • Women's Right To Vote

    Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the right to vote.

  • Testing The Law

    Susan B Anthony and three of her sister registered to vote AND voted as a dramatic protest

  • Supreme Court Ruling

    The Supreme Court ruled that although women were citizens, that didn;t geive them the roiught to vote. It was up to the states.

  • Higher Education

    The American Medical Association (AMA) started admitting women

  • National Association of Colored Women

    Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray Washington, and Harriet Tubman were included in the NACW along with 100,000 members by 1916

  • Prohibition

    The states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment (prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages)

  • Eighteenth Amendment

    The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified in 1917 but was repealed for unpopularity.