OCR textbook - position of women in 1865 Flashcards

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women in public affairs prior to civil war

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  • active in church societies, sunday schools & religious meetings
  • participated in campaign against slavery & often ardent abolitionists
  • heroic role in rescuing slaves & helping them reach free territory in north eg. harriet tubman
  • promotion of temperance
  • development of movement for woman’s suffrage
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political participation in 1865 (or around)

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  • 1st convention held for female suffrage = seneca falls, new york 1848
  • AA campaigner = sojourner truth
  • main instigators of seneca falls = lucretia mott & elizabeth cady stanton
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sojourner truth

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  • (isabella baumfree)
  • sold into slaverly in 1808
  • escaped in 1826
  • rescued son from slavery in alabama in 1835
  • campaigned for abolition & women’s rights
  • eg. speech at womens rights convention 1851 ‘ain’t i a woman?’
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elizabeth cady stanton

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  • influenced by leaders of abolitionist movement
  • worked with lucretia mott against slavery
  • friends w/ susan b. anthony –> led to formation of nation woman suffrage association 1869
  • helped organise seneca falls convention in 1848
  • campaigned for reform of divorce/property laws
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lucretia mott

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  • quaker teacher & social reformer
  • founded american anti-slavery society 1833
  • helped organise 1848 seneca falls convention –> ‘declaration of sentiments’
  • founded american equal rights association 1866
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economic/social developments - women 1865

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before 1865
- develop. of urbanisation
- new tech
- greater literacy
- better education for women

around 1865
- women’s placed believed to be in home (domesticity)
- demands for women to have political representation

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how did the civil war affect women?

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  • gave women control over lives/finances
  • challenged the view of domesticity
  • greater economic responsibility
  • economic/social change
  • women wanted rights as AA (men) had been granted them
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the end of the war

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  • few men supported political rights for women
  • view that woman’s place was inside the home (private sphere)
  • common female employments = domestic service eg. cleaning
  • limited birth control = family size was large
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