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Women's Education
Women were not encouraged to get an education because some people believed that it would ruin their marriage prospects and be harmful to their mind. Unless you were wealthy, you could get an education. By the mid 17th century women were allowed to go to school with their brothers. If you had money you would be placed within a household of a friend and within the household you would be taught different things such as how to read, write, run a household and practice sergury. -
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The Industrial Revolution
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The Start of The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period in Europe and America were they became industrial and urban. Most manufacturing was often done in people’s homes, using hand tools or basic machines. The iron and textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played central roles in the Industrial Revolution, which also saw improved systems of transportation, communication and banking. -
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The Industrial Revolution
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Factory Act
This act was to help improve the working conditions of the children in the textile factories. Too many young childern were working in terrible conditions and working for long hours. The act did not allow children under 9 to work, employes must have an age certificate for child workers, 9-13 years old work no longer than 9hrs, 13-15 no more than 12hrs, children could not work at night, and went to school for atleast 2 hours. -
Mines Act
This act did not allow females underground and no children under the age of 10 could be employed to work underground. Boys 10-18 continued to work in the mines. There were no hours set to work, and inspection could only take place on the basis of checking the conditions of the workers. Ironically many women were annoyed that they could no longer earn the much money needed to support their family. -
Ten Hour Act
Ten Hour Act was made to ensure that women and childern only worked up to 10 hours a day in factories. This would only allow them to work 10 hours on weekdays, 8 hours on Saturdays, and Sundays off. It also limited them to work about 63 hours a week. This act was not passed on its first attempt, after serveral tries it finally passed in 1847. -
Women's Rights
The 1st women's right convention in New York, 2 days after discussion and debate 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Sentiments and set the agenda for the women's right movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. -
Local and National Women's Rights
Local and national women's rights conventions are held. The 1st national is in 1860 Worcester, Mass. and 1,000 people attend. The suffrage leaders discuss both abolition and women's rights issues. In Akron, Ohio in 1851 Sojourner Truth gives her famous "Ain't I a Woman" argument. With the start of the civil war suffrage leaders turn their attention to the anti-slavery fight. Concern grows over wording of the proposed Fourteenth amendment which would put the word "male" into the U.S. Constitution -
Clarina Nichols
A recognized leader in the women's right movement, moved from Vermont to Kansas Territory. A champion of many other reforms causes, she would play an important role at the constitutional convention July 5, 1859. When assembled at Wyandotte to draw up a state constituion, Nicholes presents a petition calling for equal political and civil rights for Kansas Women. -
Over 10,000 signatures
Suffragists petition Congress with over 10,000 signatures asking for an amendment prohibiting of voting. When women in Washington D.C. ask for the vote in local elections, the first Congressional debate on Woman Suffrage takes place. May 1, the first Women's Rights Convention since the Civil War is held. The convention resolves itself into The American Equal Rights Association. Debate in the woman's suffrage movement continues over the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Granted School
Kentucky widows with children in school are granted "school suffrage," the right to vote in school board elections. Ulysses's uncle was a widow and people thinl that's why he attened the Persbyterian Academy in Ripely the next winter -
NACW
This was to help black women have equal rights. THe Black women organized a club movement that led to the formation of the National Association in Washington D.C. The organization's founders inculded some of the most reowned Afriacn-American women educators, community leaders, and civil rights activists in America. -
NWTULA
The National Women's Trade Union League of America was founded in Bosten of working-class women, peofessional, and women from wealthy families. It's purpose was to "assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions nescssary for healthful and effcient work and to obtain a just reward for such work." -
The Uprising of 20,000
This act was led by the International' Garment Workers' Union, many of the women working there, went on a 14 week strick against the factories in order to receive justice for the many who suffered harsh working conditions. They wanted shorter hours, better pay, and better working conditions. Also they objected to the common practice of locking the doors of the work floors from the outside as a security measure and as a way to control the workforce. -
The House Votes
The House votes on woman's suffrage for the first time ever. The measure is defeated 204-174. 40,000 march in a suffrage parade in New York. Suffrage is defeated in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Recognizing that Shaw's powers as an organizer are limited, NAWSA names Carrie Chapman Catt president again. -
Women's Right to Vote
The 19th amendment guarantees all America women the right to vote. Beginning in the mid 19th century several generations of women suffrage supporters lectured, wrote and practiced civil disobedience to achive what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Beginning in the 1800s, women organized petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to acomplish their purpose. -
