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Jan 20, 1491
Native American Women
The average Native American women had an important role in their society. They were in charge of gathering berries, herbs, and otther foods to eat. The herbs they gathered were used to make medicines to heal those who fell sick. Aditionally they made baskets, weapons, and pottery. There was a mutual respect between the men and women, because the they knew how big of an impact they made in their life. -
Anne Hutchenson
She was a spiritual Puritan woman that hosted meeting where she spoke out on the emphasis of individual study of the Bible, she didn't feel the need of going to church. Anne believed that people should be able to interpret the Bible, and build their relationshiip with God on their own. She was put on trial for slandering the ministries, then exiled to Rhode Island. Later Anne and her family were killed by natives. -
Womens Rights in the Atlantic World
The women of this era had little to no rights. They were subordinate to men, no right to vote, own property, draft a will, or testify in court. -
Salem Which Trials
This event took place in Salem, Massachusetts and were a series of hearings and prosecutions against people accused of whitchcraft, after young girls began to act strangly. -
Daughters of Liberty
They were a Colonial American group that protested British clothing, so they protested and encouraged making your own clothes instead of imported. -
Republican Motherhood
Women were schooled in virture so that they so that they could teach their children, becuase these children would grow up to be Republican leaders. This was the emergence of the outspoken middle class women. -
Abigail Adams
She challenged gender roles and believed that women should have a voice in the governement. She wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams to "Remember the Ladies" when drafting the Constitution. -
Betsy Ross
She is known for sewing the first American flag. -
Sacagawea
She was an interpreter between the white men and natives. One of her most impportant works was assistinng Lewis and Clark on their expedition to explore the west. -
Cult of Domesticity
It was the idealogy that women should stay home and do no work out of the home. -
Antebellum Reform Movements
Temperance Movement: An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption. Women reformers saw it as a threat to the family. The movement saw a decrease in the consumption of alcohol from 1830-1860.
Abolition: Women had a prominant role in the Abolition movement.
Suffrage: During this time women began fighting for their rights to vote. -
The Grimke Sisters
Led abolitionist meeting based on their first hand experiences as women from a South Carolina plantation. They spoke about womens equality and suffrage as well. -
Dorothea Dix
An American reformer concerned with the mentally ill, and led two reforms in assylums in prisons. -
Lowell Mill Girls
They were a group of female workers who worked for a textile corporation in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution. After a number of protest and strikes many of them came together to form the first union of working women in the US, called the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association. -
Seneca Falls Convention
It was the first womens rights convention in history. It was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, they called for sufrage. During this convention the "Declaration of Sentiments" was a document oultlining the rights that American women should be entitled to as citizens that emerged from the convention. -
Harriet Tubman
She was an escaped slave and became a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of ensalved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. -
Soujourner Truth
She is famous for her speech called "Ain't I a Women" , where she states that being a women isn't a bad thing at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. During the Civil War she helped recruit black troups for the Union army. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A reality based anti-slave novel that spurred northern sentiment against slavery in the South. Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. -
Susan B. Anthony
She was an American social reformer and feminist, she played a key role in womens suffrage. She also founded the American Equal Rights Assocoation and NAWSA. -
Changing Roles of Women due to Industrialization
Women began to have more independence and difficulties, later marriages, less kids, divorce became more common, and they had no voice in politics. -
Women's Christian Temerance Movement
First mass organization among women devoted to social reform, it linked both the religious and secular through strategies related to Christianity. They believed that prohibition would cure society of problems. Carrie Nation was a part of this organization. They revived the Temperance movement. -
American Red Cross
Was founded by Clarissa Harlowe Barton at age 60, she is one of the most recognized women in America. -
Jane Addams
She was a woman who founded the Hull House in Chicago which was intended to provide community services, especially for immigrants. -
Job Opportunities
Owners sometimes hired women as cheap labor for profits, and they were given unequal wages. In the factories they would work in textiles and spinning mills, but they also had jobs as clerks, bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, and telephone operators. -
Ida Tarbell
She was a muckracker, and exploited John D. Rockefeller with her ruthless articles about his oil company. -
Ida B. Wells
She provided statistics on the lynching of African Americans and wrote the Red Record. -
Carrie Nation
She was a part of the Temperance movement and also smashed bars across the country with her hatchet. -
Alice Paul
She was an American suffragist , womens rights activist and a main leader in the campaign for the 19th Amendment. She founded the National Women's Party in 1913 with Lucy Burns, and they fought for women's suffrage at the national level. Alice also founded the Silent Sentenials which was a group of women also in the NWP who protested in front of the White House during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. -
Flapper Girl
This was a time period where women rejected conservatism, they began to drink,smoke, go out, have premarital sex, dance, wear shorter clothing, and cut off their hair. -
19th Amendent
Granted women the right to vote. -
Margaret Sanger
Promoted education for pregnancy prevention and spoke against poor conditions for women. Was a part of the American Birth Control Leauge. -
Amelia Earhart
First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she recieved the US Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
A very vocal and strong first lady that promoted many social issues. -
Fraces Perkins
Appointed the secretary of labor and was the first female to be appointed to the US cabinet. -
Homefront: Women
With the men away at war women stepped up to work in factories and other male dominated jobs. "Rosie the Riveter" was a character used to promote female equality in society and the work force. -
Consumer Society
After men came back from the war, women are pushed to the side. Television and consumer society promoted women in image of housewife/homemaker. -
Rosa Parks
Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. -
Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
Friedan crriticized the cult of domesticity and housewife perception and encouraged women on
possibilities of professional opportunities beyond domestic ones. -
National Organization for Women
This organization pursued equal and full opportunities for women, especially in the workplace. -
Title IX
Stated that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance -
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could now sue for discrimination in workplace based on gender. -
Equal RIghts Amendment
Passed Congress, but only received 35 states of required 38 for ratification. A growing conservative culture campaigned against the ERA. -
Roe v. Wade
This Supreme Court decision legalized abortion protecting privacy rights for women. It also instilled a controversial debate between pro-life and pro-choice.
