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Women's right to vote
The original 13 states pass laws that prohibit women from voting. -
First Public High School
The first public high schools for girls open in New York and Boston. The American Journal of Education wrote that the school should give "women such an education as shall make them fit wives for well educated men. -
First Co-EDucational College
Oberlin College in Ohio, becomes the first co-educational college in the U.S. when it opened. The Oberlin Collegiate Institute held as one of its primary objectives: "the elevation of the female character, bringing within the reach of the misjudge and neglected sex, all the instructive privileges which hitherto have unreasonably distinguished the leading sex from theirs. -
Female Semitary
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary is established in South Hadley, Massachusetts by Mary Lyon as the first college for women. -
First Medical Degree
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States from Geneva College in New York. For the first time, women are permitted to practice medicine legally. -
First Womens Rights Convention
The first National Women’s Rights Convention is held in Worcester, Massachusetts, attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions continue to be held yearly (except for 1857) through 1860 -
Legislative Assembly
The First Legislative Assembly of the territory of Wyoming grants women, over the age of 21, the right to vote and to hold political office. Wyoming becomes the first state to grant women the right to vote when it becomes a state in 1890. -
15th Amendements
The 15th Amendment, one of three Amendments passed in response to the Civil War, prohibits the federal government or the state from denying citizens the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Victoria Chaflin
the first woman to run for President of the United States. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony casts her first vote as an attempt to test whether the Fourteenth Amendment would be interpreted broadly to guarantee women the right to vote.
