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