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Opportunities for women
Women were starting to find more opprtunities for education and employment. With greater oppertunities came a desire for greater involvement in the life of the community. Many women turned outward, beyond the home, to work for chage and reform in society. They sought to use their tlents and skills . In the process, women became a greater political force. -
employment opportunities
women worked as teachers and nurses. They also experienced the buisness world as bookeepers, typest, and secretaries, and shop clerks. Buisnesses such as newspapers and magazines began to hire more women as artists and journalists. -
employment opportunities
by the late 1800 opportunities in public life began to chane the way many middle-class woman veiwed their world. they had a role beyond the home. -
Prohibition
The prohibitin movement, which called for a ban making , selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reformers believed alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children. -
Women higher education
Oberlin college in Ohio began admitting women as well as men -
Women organize
The AWSA was founded with Henry Beecher as president -
Women Organize
Wyoming Territory became the first to grant women the vote -
women higher education
By, 1870 about 20% of all college students were women -
Supreme Court Rule
In 1875 the supreme court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
Prohibition
Women's christian temperance movement (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League, led an organized crusade against alcohol . Frances Willard headed the WCTU from 1879-1898 -
NAACP
The NAACP was founded because many black women found out that they were not welcome in most reform oorganizations, so they formed their own. They were fighting for the same causes as white women such as ending poverty. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington & Harriet Tubman became members. The organization had more than 100,00 members by 1916 -
Woman Organize
Elizebeth Santon formed the NWSA -
women higher education
By 1900, the 20% of college women had increased to more than 1/3. Most of the women who attented college at this time were members of the middle or upper class -
employment opportunities
The census counted 11,207 female artists, up from 412in 1870, and 2,193 female journalists, up from a mere 35 some three decades before. -
Prohibition
The congress proposed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
Eighteenth Amendment
the states ratified the amendment -
Eighteenth Amendment
the amendment was repealed -
Susan tests the law
Susan B. Anthony was a campaigner for the women's suffrage cause wrote pamphlats and made speeches. She testified against the Congress between 1869- 1906 on behalf of women's sufferage. In 1872 she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. Two weeks later they were arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the Congress of the U.S.