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First Women Rights Convention
On July 19th and 20th of 1848, was when the first women's rights convention took place. At first the women involved, like Lucretia Mott, thought that this convention would only be a small start to this movement. Little did she realize that more peoplet han they expected would show up to this convention! -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Women Allowed in College
In the year of 1855 women were finally allowed to go to college. The university of Iowa was the first college to allow women to go to the school. The University is also known as the first college to allow races into their school. -
Prostitution
In 1860 the United States was a sick place for women. Women were held as slaves for prostitution! Of 2,225,086 black women, 1,971,135 were held as slaves for prostitution! Also about 85% of Chinese women were enslaved in San Fransisco as prostitutes. -
The Revolution is Published
A way to get the womens right movement really started was by this newspaper. The Revolution was written by Susan B, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help get womens voices heard. This newspaper was also a way for the National Woman Suffrage Association to debate certain topics. -
National Woman Suffrage Association Created
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. These women decided to make this association to help get women the right to vote. Later there was another association formed to handle state legislatures rather than the federal legislatures. -
Wyoming is First State to Pass Women Suffrage Law
In this day in history, Wyoming became the first state to allow women to vote. Although this is a huge step for women in history, but there were some alternative reasons why Wyoming allowed women to vote. Wyoming did think that women's opinions in the government was very important some people think there may have been other reasons why Wyoming did this. -
15th Amendment Passed
The 15th amendment allowed black men to vote in elections. Although this was a huge step for the United States, it still frustrated many people mainly women. Women, at this point, were still not allowed to vote. The women who formed the National Women Suffrage Association were very upset that women still lacked that freedom. Those women were not going to stop until they had the right to vote! -
First Women to Serve on a Jury
After women were finally aloud to vote on a state level in Wyoming, women were aloud to be in a jury. On March 7, 1870 Eliza Stewart was the first woman to be on a jury. Eliza was able to make another huge step for women in the United States -
Women Earn Equal Wages
In 1872, Congress finally passed a law where women gained equal rights in the work place. This law helped women who would do the same work as men would earn the same amount of money. A woman named Belva Lockwood played a key role in this law being passed. -
Belva Lockwood
Belva Lockwood was a very influential woman when it came to working women. Lockwood was a lawyer trying to earn a living like anyone else. She was not accepted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court because of her gender. Belva drafted a bill in 1876 to allow women to practice law under the Supreme Court, and her bill passed after three years of debate! -
First Woman to become Superintendent
Another leap for women in the civil rights movement is when women start to take chrage in a school setting. Although women tought in schools, women did not take charge of schools. Catt, Carrie Chapman became the fights womant to be a superintendent in Mason City, Iowa, from 1883-84. -
Congress Votes on Suffrage Law
Susan B. Anthony was a very important figure in the women's civil rights movement. Anthony worked long and hard for women to be aloud to vote. In 1878, Susan created what was nicknamed "The Anthony Amendment," which allowed women the right to vote. FInally in 1887 the amendment was voted on in Congress and lost 34 to 16 votes. -
Divorces
The new century brought new things along with them. Years before women were locked into bad marriages and were not legally aloud to divorce the men they were married too. In 1900 two thirds of divorces were caused because the women wanted out of the marriage. Finally women could legally get a way out of a bad marriage. -
Uprising of the 20,000
In Novemeber of 1909, Jewish women in New York City began their strike. These women were fighting for safer work conditions, better wages, and better hours. This strike was led by Clara Lemlich who was a supporter of the National Women's Trade Union League of America. -
Girl Scouts of the USA
Juliette Gordon Low was an important woman for teen girls in 1912. Low got involved with the founder of the Boy Scouts and she wanted to create her own group. On March 12, 1912 Juliette gathered 18 girls and created her first Girl Guide group. The name was later changed to Girl Scouts the next year. -
National Women's Party
In 1913 Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. This group focused on making the "Anthony Amendment" pass by bringing attention to women's suffrage. The group also got renamed in 1917 as the National Women's Party. -
Women Work in Mens Jobs.
When war called all the men to the first world war, there was no one there to make materials needed for the battles. Around when the war started, women started working in factories helping out to make materials for war. Not only did the women work to make war products they also started to run street cars, conduct trains, direct traffic, and deliver mail. -
First Woman in Congress
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of congress. Rankin was from Montana and is the only woman represative to come from Montana. She also voted against World War I and World War II. -
World War I Ends
After a horrible war, all of our boys came home. These soldiers came to find women working every where. Women basically took care of the country while the men where gone and the men realized that. Thne finally the men took into consideration that maybe they should let women vote... -
19th Amendment Passed
Finally after almost two centerys of fighting for this right, women were finally aloud to vote. The nineteenth amandment stated that no United States citizen could be denied the right to vote based on their sex. The vote won int he House with 304 to 89 votes and in the Senate with 56 to 25 votes.
