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Apr 10, 1400
Native Americans practice Matrilineal Societies
Societies that trace heritage through the mother's line. Inherit property and kinship through the female side. Many Native American societies practiced this type of social system. The Apache were one of many tribes to practice this. -
Anne Hutchinson is tried and banished
Anne Hutchinson, who has challenged the teachings of the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is tried for heresy and banished. She and her family move to Rhode Island. -
Republican motherhood
Its roots were from the idea that a citizen should be to his country as a mother is to her child -
Cult of Domesticity
term that described the home as being the special sphere run by women -
The first sexually integrated jury hears cases in New York
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Abigail Adams
1744-1818. John Adam's wife, she appealed to her husband to protect the rights of women. a member of the Daughters of Liberty -
Mill girls
mostly from the New England States; their fathers did not want to have to pay for them to live with them until they got married, and sent them to work at the Lowell Mill, where the girls lived, worked, and ate; they got little time for meals and sleep, and worked long hours in the factory all year -
the Daughters of Liberty is formed
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Lucretia Mott
She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848 -
Sojourner Truth
a leading preacher against slavery and for the rights of women., United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women -
Cult of Domesticity
aka the cult of true womanhood: reflected the early 19th century middle-class ideal about the role of women in society. In an increasingly industrial society, husbands began to work away from home in factories or offices & wives stayed at home & engaged in domestic pursuits. This created a view that men support their families while women stay at home where they were sheltered from cold realities of politics & capitalism. Work became increasingly associated w/ men and the home became for females. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869. -
Dorothea Dix
A reformer and pioneer that treated the insane as mentally ill, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. -
Susan B Anthony
helped introduce women's suffrage into the United States, and help it gain recognition in the American government. She was also the co-founder of one of the first temperance movements. -
Clara Barton
1821-1912. Nurse, humanitarian, and teacher during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross -
Elizabeth Blackwell
1821-1910. A womans rights activist. Also first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. -
The Grimke Sisters
Angelina Grimke & Sarah Grimke made history: daring to speak before “promiscuous” or mixed crowds of men and women, publishing powerful anti-slavery tracts of the antebellum era, & stretching the boundaries of women’s public role as the first women to testify before a state legislature on the question of African American rights. The Grimke sisters were among the first abolitionists to recognize the importance of women’s rights and to speak and write about the cause of female equality. -
American Female Moral Reform Society founded
Organization founded in 1839 by female reformers that established homes of refuge for prostitutes and petitioned for state laws that would criminalize adultery and the seduction of women. -
The Lowell System
Young women were hired from the countryside to come learn hardworking values in textile mills and earn money on their own -
Carry Nation
leader of the WCTU (temperance movement) -
Seneca Falls Convention
Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. led by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Declaration of Sentiments
Revision of the Declaration of Independence produced at Seneca Falls Convention to include equality of women and men. it helped with civil, social, political, and religious rights for women. -
Florence Kelly
Active in the settlement house movement and led progressive labor reforms for women and children -
Carrie Chapman Catt
A women's suffrage leader, she was twice the president of the NAWSA She was one of the main people attributed to woman's suffrage. -
Jane Addams
1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. -
The territory of Wyoming passes the first women's suffrage law
The territory of Wyoming passes the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory. -
Louisa Ann Swain is first woman to vote in US
In 1870 Louisa Ann Swain became the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie, Wyoming. -
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's -
Hull House
started by Jane Addams in Chicago to help the urban poor in garment making, housing conditions, literacy and in the nursery -
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association;to help women win the right to vote -
Women's Trade Union League
formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions -
Ida Tarbell
a "Muckraker" Tarbell made her reputation by publishing the history of the Standard Oil Company, the "Mother of Trusts." -
Muller v. Oregon
Supreme Court upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health -
The first birth control clinic is created
Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in New York City in 1923. -
The 19th Amendment is ratified
Women are guaranteed the right to vote. -
Flappers
The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior of flappers as a sign of changing morals. -
The first Miss America Beauty Pageant is held
The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City -
Amelia Earheart
first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic -
WW1/WWII
WWI women working in factories
-WWII women working men's jobs on a larger scale since so many men were at war -
The National Recovery Act takes away female jobs...
The National Recovery Act forbids more than one family member from holding a government job, resulting in many women losing their jobs. -
Rosie the Riveter
A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. -
WAC (women's army corps)
enlisted women for non-combat duties like nurses, cartography clerks, and secretaries -
Feminist movement of the 1960's
The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity, via anti-discrimination laws. As such, the different wings of the feminist movement sought women's equality on both a political and personal level. -
The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress
promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker. -
Feminine Mystique
Book by Betty Friedan to call out women to contribute more politically, economically & socially -
Miss America Protest
The Miss America protest was attended by about 400 feminists & separately by civil rights advocates. The protest, organized by New York Radical Women, included tossing a collection of symbolic feminine products, pots, false eyelashes, mops, and other items into a "Freedom trash can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk. When the protesters also unfurled a large banner emblazoned with "Women's Liberation" inside the contest hall, they drew worldwide media attention to the Women’s Liberation Movement. -
Roe v. Wade
Supreme court decision that struck down 46 state laws restricting women's access to abortion -
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women. -
1st women to be Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Conner is sworn in as the first female to be a Supreme Court Justice. -
Sandra Day O'Conner
first woman supreme court justice (under Reagan) -
The Violence Against Women Act
The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the Supreme Court invalidates those portions of the law permitting victims of rape, domestic violence, etc. to sue their attackers in federal court. -
The first female of the house is elected
Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House. -
Ban against women in combat is removed
The ban against women in military combat positions is removed; this overturned a 1994 Pentagon decision restricting women from combat roles. -
Female holds ticket to major party
Hillary Rodham Clinton secures the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first U.S. woman to lead the ticket of a major party. She loses to Republican Donald Trump in the fall. -
Congress has a record number of women
Congress has a record number of women, with 104 female House members and 21 female Senators, including the chamber's first Latina, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.