1. Susan B. Anthony Votes
American women in the 1800s were growing frustrated with the fact that they couldn’t participate in the voting system of their own country. Susan B. Anthony, an American social reformer and women’s rights activist, decided that this unfair treatment could no longer prevail in the United States. On November 5, 1872, Anthony and three other women headed to a barbershop to register to vote in the election. When they were refused, Anthony threatened to sue and so the first women cast their votes in the presidential election.