Unit 6 Assignment

Unit 6

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Class

Date

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1919: Women gained the right to vote, as the 19th amendment was added the U.S. Constitution.

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1913 : The National Women’s Party was founded by founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.

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1935 : Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women.

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1960 : The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.

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1919: Women gained the right to vote, as the 19th amendment was added the U.S. Constitution.

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1913 : The National Women’s Party was founded by founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.

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1935 : Mary McLeod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women.

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1960 : The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.

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1960

1900

1910

19200

1930

1940

1950

1960

All of the event mentioned in my timeline are important steps to the current state of women’s rights in America. While these stepping stones may not be completely and perfectly associated with one another, as far as building to some larger, more recognizable historical event, they are in fact related to each other as far as the present result of women’s rights in America today. Every inch of progress towards women’s equal rights in America was earned with a strength and determination to persevere, despite the adversities, trials and hardships in the way of women as a whole.

I do believe though that the establishment of the National Women’s Party in 1913 was a significant contribution to the 19th amendment being added to the Constitution just a few short years later. Such a significant change also would...