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Many women work in crowded factories, such as this lock
and drill department in Ohio in 1902. |
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Mary Pickford is a popular actress of the silent screen.
As the first major movie star, she is called “the
World’s Sweetheart.” |
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This 1909 cartoon reflects the common debate over the
women’s suffrage movement. |
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Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing at the
age of 19 months, is pictured with her teacher, Anne
Sullivan. Anne taught Helen to speak, read, and write. |
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• Women in Wisconsin
win partial suffrage.
(Before the turn of the century, women had won partial
suffrage in more than 20 other states.)
• Carrie
Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B. Anthony as president
of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association. |
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• Orville and
Wilbur Wright
make the first airplane flight.
The Women’s
Trade Union League is founded to help working women
organize. |
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• Helen
Keller is the first deaf and blind woman to graduate
from Radcliffe College.
• Construction
of the Panama Canal begins. |
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• A law called
the Sullivan Ordinance is passed in New York City, making
it illegal for women to smoke in public.
• Henry
Ford introduces the first Model T.
• International
Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time.
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events in red. |
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