Women Suffrage Movement

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  • Jobs for women

    Jobs opportunities for middle-class educated women increased in the 1800s for example teachers.

  • 1st college to admit women.

    Oberlin is the 1st college to admit women.

  • Women college students

    20% of college students were women by 1870.

  • Suffrage Associations

    Suffrage associations were made like the NWSA and the AWSA were formed in 1872.

  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony made speeches against Congress for women suffrage from 1869 to 1906.

  • Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court let the states decide what they wanted to do with the voting for women.

  • The Prohibition Movement

    In 1879 People started to ban the production, use, and distribution of alcohol because it was thought to be the cause of everything bad.

  • National Association of Colored Women

    The NACW was formed by a few Iconic African American women such as Harriet Tubman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sojourner Truth.

  • Increase in Women in College

    Women students in college increased to over a third of colleges.

  • The 18th Amendment

    In 1919 the 18th amendment was ratified, but in 1933 it was reapealed.