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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams
In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain. Nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives voted to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, Adams letter was a private first step in the fight for equal rights for women. -
Pregnancy Discrimination
Working women could have their careers cut short if they became pregnant. -
Elizabeth Clovis Lange (1784-1882)
Founder of the Oblate Sisters of providence, first black Roman catholic order in the US. She promoted education for deprived people -
Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
She and her husband, James, made their home a station on the underground railroad. She helped to organize the women's rights convention. -
Cult of Domesticity
The cult of domesticity, also known as the cult of true womanhood, is a set of beliefs about gender roles in 19th-century America. The middle and upper-class men and women who ascribed to this set of values believed that since men were busy working, women should focus on cultivating a home that is supportive, warm, and virtuous.They believed that women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home.This ideology was thought to elevate the moral status of women. -
Margaret Fuller(1810-1850)
An American Women's rights advocate. Her book "Women in the Nineteenth Century" (1845) was influential in changing perceptions about men and women and was one of the most important early feminist works. She argued for equality and women being more self-dependent and less dependent on men. -
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
American campaigner against slavery and for the promotion of women's and worker's rights. She began campaigning within the temperance movement and this convinced her of the necessity for women to have the right to vote. She toured the US giving countless speeches on the subject of human rights. -
Little Women volume 1+2 (1968-1869)
Alcott's fiction became her "most important feminist contribution"—even considering all the effort Alcott made to help facilitate women's rights. She thought that "a democratic household could evolve into a feminist society". In Little Women, she imagined that just such an evolution might begin with Plumfield, a nineteenth-century feminist utopia. She depicts Jo who is fully appreciative of love and support as a rebel; she is not rebelling against her family but against the role of a girl. -
Acceptance of Women into an Ivy League University
Women couldn't get an Ivy League education with a few exceptions. Getting an elite education wasn't an option for even the nation's brightest women. Most Ivy League institutions didn't accept women until more than two decades after World War 2. -
Women Attempt to Vote
Many women including Susan B. Anthony attempted to vote but failed and many were arrested. -
Susan B. Anthony's Trial
Susan B. Anthony was tried for illegally voting. -
Anthony Admendment
The Anthony Amendment is proposed to start and help out women but when voted on, they are turned down. The fight begins to get more intense. -
The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade
About 5,000 women march along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C proving how much they feel that they deserve voting rights. -
World War 1
Because of the beginning of World War 1, women got to hold positions that normally only men would have because the men were off fighting in the war. -
Picketing for Suffrage
Women are so set on getting the right to vote that they go to the White House with picket signs fighting for their rights. -
The Job
The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The novel was published before Lewis achieved any significant fame and provides insights on working women as well as the unique nature (for the time) of having a woman as the lead character.
