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job opportunities
Women opportunities for employment were bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. The women realized they could play a different role beyond their home. -
AWSA vs. NWSA
The AWSA focused exclusively on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis and it was also aligned with the Republican Party. -
higher women education
20 percent of all college students are women. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan tested the law in the beginning of 1872 by registering to vote on Election Day which was illegial. -
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship didn't give them the right to vote. It was up to the states to grant women the right to vote. -
NACW
The NACW was formed to campaign against poverty, segregation, and lynchings. It also fought against the presistence of Jim Crow laws that denied african americans the right too vote. -
NACW
Some prominent members were Ida B. Wells-Bennet and Margaret Murray Washington. -
Prohibition movement
The Eighteenth Amendment was proposed by the Congress. -
18th amendment
the 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. -
Prohibition movement
The states ratified the eighteenth amendment. -
what happened to 18th amendment?
The 18th amendment proved so unpopular that it was repealed.