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Greater Political Force
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It was "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
Women Working
In the USA the first woman to become a doctor was Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849. -
AWSA
The founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the leading organization in the fight for female enfranchisement, marked the birth of a united and purely feminist social movement in the United States. -
Wyoming
The first state to allow women to vote legally. -
Susan B Anthony
In 1872 Susan B. Anthony voted illegally in a presidential election.She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay. -
Supreme Court
Minor v. Happersett. Supreme Court case that didn't grant women in the state of Missouri to vote. The right of suffrage was not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Education for Women
Women started to realize that they needed education to be more powerful so, they started their own schools called institutes or seminaries. They were encouraged to keep silent about their knowledge. -
National Association of Colored Women
It was a club to get the rights of Colored women and to protect them. -
Employment
Women could work in factories, family businesses or domestic services. -
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Prohibition Movement
Many women silently supported the prohibition movement thinking alcohol was the root of many social problems. Also, it kept the men from abusing their wives and children when in a drunken state. -
Women Get the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote a right known as woman suffrage.
