Women Rights
By: Chloe, Mickiel, Emylee, Alexis
Time Line
Women are allowed to vote in New Jersey because the state's constitution uses the term “Inhabitants”
1848:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is among the organizers of the first women's rights conventions in Seneca falls, New York
1916:
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first women elected to the white house.
1920:
Women get the right to vote
1941-1945:
Women take over the jobs left by men who went to world war 2
1972:
Congress passed the equal rights law
1981:
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the supreme court.
2007:
Congresswomen Nancy Pelosi is the first women to speak for the White House
The 19th amendment
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United states or by any State on account of sex.”
Facts
Women attempted to fight in American Wars either openly or secretly
One hundred U.S senators only twenty are women
Four-hundred & eighty-five House of Representatives eighty-four are female
- The Nation's effort for women's right to vote began in 1848
- Victoria Woodhull was the first female to run for president
Extra Website facts
2. During the 1880s, the women’s rights movement struggled to maintain momentum