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The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified in 1917 but was repealed for unpopularity.