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American Revolution
Women did many things to help out with the war. They cooked, cleaned, tended to the wounded,protected property, made bullets and weapons, and even fought in battles! -
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Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Women and men who were fighting for women's rights gathered here to discuss and debate what they should do and why women should be treated the same and men. -
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for woman's voting rights. They formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, who's primary goal was to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution. -
Wyoming Grants the Right of Voting to Women
On this day, the territory of Wyoming passed the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory. -
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Women get the Right to Vote in Other States
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote. Utah and Idaho follow suit in 1896, Washington State in 1910, California in 1911, Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona in 1912, Alaska and Illinois in 1913, Montana and Nevada in 1914, New York in 1917; Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma in 1918. -
Women Get the Right to Vote
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. -
First Woman Governor of A U.S State.
Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to serve as governor of a state, in Wyoming. In the fall of 1924 she was elected to succeed her deceased husband, William Bradford Ross. -
First Women Working in the Presidential Cabinet
Frances Perkins is appointed secretary of labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making her the first woman member of a presidential cabinet. -
First Women Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice. -
America's First Lady Elected to the National Office
Hillary Clinton is elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first First Lady ever elected to national office.
