1890-1920 Flashcards
The Yellow Wallpaper
A dairy type story about a women who is located in a room and what she has experienced in this room, her baby has been taken away from her and she is locked in a room and she sees a lady who is behind bars, this is a reflection of herself, her husband believes that her writing is what is causing her to be sick, men believed women’s minds were too fragile for education.
NAWSA
National American Women’s Suffrage Association, lead by Carrie Chapman Catt. Wanted to promote suffrage state by state. Got the first state, Wyoming, to grant women suffrage. Made up of older upper class women. Was not radical
Congressional Union
Alice Paul was part of the union and founded the group. It supported associations and unions that helped with women’s suffrage
Ida B. Wells
An African American Suffragette. She was a civil rights activist and newspaper editor. She participated in parades led by the National Women’s Party to help promote suffrage for African American women. She was against lynching.
Emma Goldman
Anarchist who attempted to assassinate the manager of a steel plant. She worked on behalf of the trade unions. She advocated birth control. She was deported to russia.
Separate Spheres
A sexist ideology that originated during the industrial revolution. Defining that there are gender roles. The men are supposed to go out and work while the women stay home, take care of the house, and the children
Elizabeth Candy Stanton
Radical feminist suffragist and abolitionist who wrote the declaration of sentiment and the women’s bible
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wrote the Yellow wall paper
Carrie Chapman Catt
President of NAWSA. Advocated state by state approach to suffrage.
Alice Paul
Suffragette who broke from the women’s movement to form the Congressional Union, which employed mored radical tactics to gain the vote
Mae West
Provocative film star of the silent film era whose roles did not conform to societal norms for women of the time
Emmaline Pankhurst
Radical British suffragette
National Women’s Party
Founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Made up of younger more radical suffragettes. Of lower classes. Helped with the creation of the 19th amendment. Tennessee was the last state which ratified the 19th amendment.
New Women
Active social role, College educated, middle class, worked after graduation, married at a later age or remained single.
Triangle Fire
A garment factory, working conditions were terrible. Their working stations were very close together making it hard to maneuver, people working had been kept longer than what they were supposed to . No one knows why the fire started. The building was supposed to be fireproof. There were no safety precautions. It shows the life styles some immigrant women had to go through.
