Women's Suffrage

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    Higher Education

    Oberlin college began admitting women
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    Women Organize

    The NWSA campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote
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    Women Organize

    The AWSA focused on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis
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    HIgher Education

    20 percent of all college students were women
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    Employment Opportunities

    The number of jubs for women expanded
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    Prohibition Movement

    The prohibition movement called for a ban on makig, selling and distibuting alcoholic bevarages
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    Opportunities For Women

    Women were finding more opportunities for education and employment
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    Employment Opportunities

    Public life began to change the way many middle-class women viewed their world
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    Prohibition Movement

    Reformers believed alcohol was responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children
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    Susan B. Anthony Tests the Lae

    Susan B. Anthony and three of her sisters registered to vote, and on Election Day they voted. Two weeks late they were arrested for "knowingly,wrongfully and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States.
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    Susan B. Anthony Tests the Law

    The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote
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    Civil Rights

    The National Association of Colored Women was founded
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    Civil Rights

    Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Margaret Murray and Harriet Tubman were some prominent members of the organization
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    Civil Rights

    The NACW was created because black women were not accepted into must reform organizations
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    HIgher Education

    The number of female college students increased to one-third
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    Prohibition Movement

    The eighteenth amendment was created to prohibit the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
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    Prohibition Movement

    The eighteenth amendment was ratified by the states
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    Nineteeth Amendment

    The 19th amendment gave all American women the right to vote
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    Prohibition Movement

    The eighteenth amendment was repealed