Midterm 2

Question 0

Abortion was not illegal until _____

Answer 0

1860/1880

Question 1

Comstock law

Answer 1

Made it illegal to send obscene contents in the u.s. Mail including birth control

Question 2

3 reasons birth control info was regulated

Answer 2

1. Sexual activity
2. Population size
3. The role of women

Question 3

Most popular form of birth control?

Answer 3

Douching and rhythm

Question 4

What year did they figure out when the best time for douching and rhythm was?

Answer 4

1924

Question 5

Major problems for pioneer women?

Answer 5

Disease

Question 6

Most important reasons for prejudice against immigrants?

Answer 6

They were willing to work for less, therefore job competitiveness

Question 7

Why did so few women join unions?

Answer 7

1. Saw jobs as temporary
2. Unions did not want women
3. Danger factor

Question 8

Major complaints of the working girls in Boston

Answer 8

1. Hours too long
2. Health conditions (I.e. Bad air)
3. Not enough time to eat

Question 9

Chinese prostitution

Answer 9

The families sold girls into prostitution when they came to America

Question 10

Which state passed the property law which gave women the right to vote

Answer 10

Connecticut

Question 11

Seneca falls

Answer 11

1848

Question 12

Mt. Holyoke college

Answer 12

1837

Question 13

Wyoming grants women the right to vote

Answer 13

1870

Question 14

Mother Harris jones

Answer 14

achieve equality and justice for the country’s industrial laborers.

Question 15

Lucretia Mott

Answer 15

Known for: initiating Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Occupation: reformer: antislavery and women’s rights activist; Quaker minister

Question 16

Lucy stone

Answer 16

Speaker ( she helped found the American Equal Rights Association. She also organized and was elected president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association,)

Question 17

Elizabeth cady Stanton

Answer 17

Philosopher ( Lecturing across the country, she spoke on topics like maternity, child rearing, divorce law, temperance, and presidential campaigns.)

Question 18

Susan b. Anthony

Answer 18

Organizer

Question 19

Margaret fuller

Answer 19

1st american women philosopher & first real newspaper reporter

Question 20

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 20

1st women doctor/ applied to 29 medical schools

Question 21

Antoinette brown Blackwell

Answer 21

1st ordained women minister in a Congregational church, became a Unitarian

Question 22

Dorothea Dix

Answer 22

Got mentally ill people out of jail and into separate mental institutions

Question 23

Belva Lockwood

Answer 23

1st women admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court/ had to get congress to pass a bill that would allow her to practice before the Supreme Court

Question 24

Clara Barton

Answer 24

1st female federal government founded the Red Cross & helped the bill that prohibited militants from shooting a wounded militant

Question 25

Victoria woodhill & Tennessee caflin

Answer 25

1st female stockbrokers

Question 26

Victoria woodhill

Answer 26

1st female stock broker and founded a newspaper on free love, legalizing prostitution