Wisconsin History Day By Day

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"Wisconsin Legal History" by Joseph Ranney

"Wisconsin Women" by Wisconsin Historical Society

"The Story of Wisconsin Women" by Ruth Miriam De Young Kohler

"On Wisconsin Women: Working for the Rights from Settlement to Suffrage" by Genevieve McBride

Vocabulary:

equal rights

civil laws

Interesting Fact:

A national Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, still has not been ratified by the necessary 35 states.

Study Questions:

What did the Wisconsin equal rights bill allow women to do?

What did Gov. John Blaine have to say about the Women's Rights bill?

Who were some of the women behind the fight for equal rights in Wisconsin during the first part of the twentieth century?

Search these newspaper databases for additional stories about women and the equal rights movement:

Wisconsin State Journal/The Capital Times

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

BadgerLink Wisconsin Newsstand

Wisconsin Historical Society

U.S. historical events that occurred on July 11:

1804: Vice-President Aaron Burr shoots former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel. Hamilton dies the next day.

July 11

July 11, 1921: Wisconsin became the first state in the country where women had equal rights with men under civil laws as Governor John Blaine signed the Women's Rights bill.

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July 11, 1921: Wisconsin became the first state in the country where women had equal rights with men under civil laws as Governor John Blaine signed the Women's Rights bill.