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Colleges open their doors to women
By 1870 about 20 percent of all college students were women. By 1900 that number had increased by more than one-third.By 1900 that number had increased by more than one-fifth. -
first womens rights convention
Seneca Falls, New York is the location for the first Women's Rights Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come. -
"Ain't I a woman?" speech
the second National Women's Rights Convention. Participants included Horace Mann, New York Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers. At a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech, "Ain't I a woman?" -
Civil War
During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort. -
NWSA and AWSA
NWSA and AWSA merge and the National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed. Stanton is the first president. The Movement focuses efforts on securing suffrage at the state level.Wyoming is admitted to the Union with a state constitution granting woman suffrage.The American Federation of Labor declares support for woman suffrage.
The South Dakota campaign for woman suffrage loses. -
The Prohibition Movement
A ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. Reformers believed alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence. -
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The 19th amendment
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. 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.
