1865 Belle Boyd, a spy for the Confederate Army, is captured and imprisoned by the Union army. 1867 Cigar makers are the first union to accept women and African Americans. 1868 Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to graduate from an American medical school as a licensed physician opens her Women's Medical College in New York City. 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association. Lucy Stone founds the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Women win the right to vote in the territory of Wyoming.
In Iowa, Arabella Mansfield becomes the first American woman admitted to the bar. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is published. Congress passes a law to give women federal employees equal pay for equal work. Susan B. Anthony and 16 other women are arrested for attempting to vote in the Presidential election. Victoria Woodhull runs for the presidency under the Equal Rights party.