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About 20,000 suffrage supporters join this 1912 parade
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Jeannette Rankin is the first female member of Congress. |
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The Ziegfeld Follies is a popular show that opens in 1907
and runs until 1931. |
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Three suffragists cast their votes in New York City
in 1917, after New York State adopts women’s suffrage. |
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| • Washington State
adopts women’s suffrage. (Fifteen other states will follow
in the next seven years.) |
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| • The Triangle
Shirtwaist Company fire kills 146 factory workers,
mostly young women, sparking labor reform. |
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| • The Titanic
sinks on its first voyage to New York. |
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| • Alice
Paul founds the National Woman’s Party to abolish
discrimination against women. |
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march on the Capitol the day before President Woodrow
Wilson’s inauguration. |
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| • Margaret
Sanger is arrested for opening the first birth control
clinic in the United States. |
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| • Jeannette
Rankin from Montana becomes the first woman elected
to Congress. |
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| • The United
States enters World
War I, which ends in 1918. |
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League of Women Voters is founded. |
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• Prohibition
begins as the 18th Amendment is ratified, outlawing the
sale and manufacture of alcohol.
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