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1892: The first women's basketball game was played at Smith College, and conducted by Senda Berenson. [13] 1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman to hold high office in the United States when she is elected to Congress, as a Republican from Montana. 1916: The first birth control clinic in America is opened by Margaret Sanger. [14] [15]
The history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history. 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.
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Timeline of women in the United States; Timeline of women hazzans in America; Timeline of women in dentistry in America; Timeline of women in mathematics in America; Timeline of women rabbis in America; Women's education in the United States; Women's History Sites (U.S. National Park Service) Women's suffrage in the United States; Women in the ...
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during two eras of activism. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US ...
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.
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
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 ...