CHRONOLOGY
| 1607 | First European women arrive at Jamestown Colony. |
| 1638 | Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hutchinson was tried and convicted of religious heresy, the punishment for which was banishment. |
| 1692 | Salem Witch Trials occur. In a town gripped by witch hysteria, scores of women were accused of practicing witchcraft. A series of trials resulted in the execution of 20 of the accused. |
| 1769 | Daughters of Liberty support Non-Importation Agreement. |
| 1773 | A volume of Phillis Wheatley's poetry becomes first published book by an African American. |
| 1776 | Abigail Adams admonishes John to "remember the ladies." |
| 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Women. |
| 1818 | Emma Willard asks for taxpayer support to educate females. |
| 1826 | American Society for the Promotion of Temperance is established. |
| 1830 | Moral Physiology is published, the first tract in favor of birth control. |
| 1833 | Oberlin College is founded, America's first coeducational college. |
| 1833 | Prudence Crandall opens Canterbury School, one of the first to accept black females as students. |
| 1833 | Female Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia is founded. |
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Publication information:
Book title: Women's Rights.
Contributors: Christine A. Lunardini - Author.
Publisher: Oryx Press.
Place of publication: Phoenix.
Publication year: 1996.
Page number: 185.
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