women key events

Question 1

founding of national american women suffrage association

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1869, group focused on changes to federal law to allow women to vote

Question 2

founding of women’s christian temperance union

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1874 WTCU campaigned for prohibition of alcohol

Question 3

formation of national association opposed to women’s sufffrage

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1911 former to campaign against the women’s right to vote

Question 4

first woman elected to congress in

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1916 montana elected

Question 5

first state to give women the vote

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1917-18 new york illinois south dakota nebraska and michigan

Question 6

passage of the nineteenth amendment

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1920, right to vote given to ALL women

Question 7

job losses

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1941-46 800,000 women lose their jobs after WW2

Question 8

women’s advisory committee

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1941-45 gov organisation on how to mobilise women labour

Question 9

publication of the feminine mystique

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1963 a publication on women’s frustration of how american society held them back

Question 10

civil rights act

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1964 sex is a protected characteristic

Question 11

NOW

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1966, National Organisation for Women is formed to campaign a truly equal relationship with men

Question 12

equal rights ammendment

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1972 proposed a series of measures to ensure female equality conservative opposition led to it never being ratified

Question 13

roe v wade

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1973 abortion in first trimester cannot be banned by states and not in third or fourth if medical issues are present