Education for Women Flashcards
1
Q
society standards
A
- women were to be in the home
- family
- raising children
- training in sewing was more important than school
2
Q
Emma Willard
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- 1821 - Troy Female Seminary (first female secondary school)
- 1837 - Oberlin College (Ohio) - opened its doors to women
3
Q
Godey’s Lady Book (1830)
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- 150,000 circulation
- articles, poetry, engravings
- intellectual magazine for women
4
Q
Dorothea Dix
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- New England Teacher
- Wrote book on insane asylums from firsthand observations (1843)
- changed law
5
Q
American Temperance Society
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- 1826 - Boston
- anti-alcohol
- bars at the time were male-only. men would often get drunk and come home late
6
Q
seneca falls convention
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- new york (1848)
- women demand the right to vote
7
Q
remember this…
A
although the suffrage (voting) movement began in 1848, women would not gain the right to vote until 1919 with the passage of the 19th Amendment
8
Q
Stanton was a woman who fought most of her life for ________-
A
women’s rights
