Sunday, March 6, 2011

US Events

National League for Baseball
The first National League for baseball was formed in the United States in 1876. The league had eight teams that played seventy games between April 22 and October 21. Two major league teams that we have today were formed back then (Boston Red Stockings-Boston Red Socks, Chicago White Stockings-Chicago White Socks). This league was an improvement of the previous National Association. Baseball is said to have originated in England in 1755 but the first league there wasn't established until 1890.


Women's Voting Rights
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote. She led a group of women who were attempting to test the right of women to the franchise under the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment. Her arrest, trial, and sentence to a fine (which she refused to pay) were a cause célèbre. In Great Britain, it wasn't until 1903 that a union was formed to fight for women's voting rights. They didn't really campaign to vote until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

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