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Employment Opportunities
They worked as teachers and nurses, they were also bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. -
First College to Admit Women
In 1833, Oberlin is the 1st college to admit women/ In 1870, 20%of college students were women. By 1900, 1/3 of the number of women that are students increased. -
The Fithteenth Amendment
This amendment gave the vote to African American men but not to women. It prohibited denying the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
AWSA vs. NWSA
The AWSA, unlike NWSA, they focused exclusively on winning the right to vote on a state-by-state basis. It also aligned itself with the Republican Party. -
Susan B. Anthony
She refused to pay the fine that the judge gave her, hoping to force the judge to arrest her and create a case that could be tried through the courts. The judge did not imprison her but denyed her the right to appeal her case to a higher court. -
Supreme Court 1875
The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. -
National Association of Colored Women
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Margaret Murray Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, and Harriet Tubman. The NACW was formed to campaign against poverty, segretation, and lynchings. It fought against the persistence of Jim Crow laws and denied African Americans the right to vote. -
Children's Health and Welfare
Many women fought to end child labor, improve children's health, and promote education. Lillian Wald, believed the feeral government had a responsibility to tend to the well being of children. She had success when Federal Children's Bureau opened in 1912. -
Eighteenth Amendment
It progibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. It was repealed in 1933 -
Prohibition Movement
It was a ban on making, selling, and distributing alcoholic beverages. WCTU and the Anti-Saloon League, it was an organized crusade against alcohol.