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1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. European women arrived in the 17th century and brought with them European culture and values. During the 19th century, women were primarily restricted to domestic roles in keeping with Protestant values. The campaign for women's suffrage in the United States ...
Joan Little becomes the first woman in United States history to be acquitted using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault. [184] [185] Louisiana: "No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws. No law shall discriminate against a person because of race or religious ideas, beliefs, or affiliations.
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in ...
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
One of the premier collections on the World Wide Web for the teaching of U.S. history, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000, includes (as of March 2014) 110 document projects with almost 4,350 documents and more than 153,000 pages of additional full-text sources relating to U.S. women's history.
November 19 - Kamala Harris became the first woman to serve as Acting President of the United States in American history. 2024 March 3–5 - Nikki Haley became the first woman to win a Republican presidential nominating contest when she won the District of Columbia primary , and the first to win a Republican state primary when she won Vermont .
Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States; Timeline of women in religion in the United States; Timeline of women in science in the United States; Timeline of women in war in the United States, pre-1945; Timeline of women in warfare in Colonial America; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States before 1900; Timeline of women ...