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impact of civil war

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  • married women working outside the home as nurses and and in the roles left by men
  • nrusing not seen as a profession
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westward expansion

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women working as cooks nurses, etachers and farm labourers
poor medical care and high rates of death during birth
right to own land (homestead act)

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15th amendment

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extended teh vote to all races but didnt include wome

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women in work 1865-1914

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in 1870 13% of unmarried women worked outstide the home
by 1900 they made up 17% of the workforce
in the 1890s more clerical work, however did not recieve promotions

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education in the 1900s

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by 1900 half of highschool graduates were women
it was often seen as preperation for marriage and motherhood but many were delaying chidbrith to find careers

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Temprance

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the bleife that alcohol diminished family life and the home, wanted a total prohibition

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womens cursades

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1873
the first instance of mass movement by women for prohibition

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WCTU

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womens christian temperance union
founded by elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony
promotinh the evils of excessive drinking aswell as suffrage
in 1900 there were 7000 branches

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NACW

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national association of coloured women
aswelll as sexual disrcimination black women also faced racisim which also fueled their campaign
ida b wells

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AWSA

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american womens suffarge association
formed following the 14th/15th amendments by lucy stone
remained pledged to securing the vote for black men and a moderate approach to securing female votes on a state level

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NWSA

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rival to AWSA
formed by elizabeth kady stanton and susan b anthony in 1969
wanted to secure national suffrage
diditn allow men to be involved

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comstock laws

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1873
effectively made the distribution and advertisment of contraceptives illegal
this furthered the divide btween the rich and poor, with rich able to buy under the counter

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NWSA legal disputes in court

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was rules in court thatw omen couldnt run for congress but states coudl allow coting in 1875
wyomig was the first state to do so in 1869

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NAWSA

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NWSA and AWSA fomed Nawsa in 1890

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early support for NAWSA

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by 1905 there were 17000 members
by 1915 there were 100,000 but this represented only half of that involved in temperance

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ASL

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anti-saloon leauge
set up in 1893
pushed for lobbying to create the prbhibition

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WWI

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  • increased opporuntity for unmarried women aswell as AA
  • many earned good wages for the first time
  • 1 million worked in industry 1917-1918

however there was an expectation taht womenw oudl return home after, limiting its long term effect

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18th amendment

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passed in 1917 banning alchohol, begining the prohibition

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19th amendment

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the right for women over 21 the right to vote in 1920
however, this did not include immigrant women and AA women were prevnted from voting in the south
turnout for the following election was low and women voted how their husbands did on a whole

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flappers

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era of relaxed conservative views in the 1920s
women wore shorter skirts, short hair and smoked
this inability to acsess contraceptives worstened teh effect of social alienation on women who bore children outside of marriage
created seperate spheres between rual, conservatives and the ‘modern woman’

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ABCL

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american birth control leauge
margret sanger in 1921
they faced powerful opposition but by 1924 had 27,500 members

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margret sanger

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went to prison for opening a BC clinic
then set up the ABCL in 1921
opened the first legal clinic in 1923 with backing from rockerfeller

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WONPR

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womens organization for the national prohibition refrom (1929)

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wall street crash 1929

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  • by 1936 a poll of 82% didnt want women in teh workplace, to save jobs for men 26 states attempted to introduce laws to ban women from work
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New deal
1933-39 * social security act 1935 ( welfare benefits) * independnat chold act 1935 (woemn struggling to raise kids during depression) * the fair labour standards act 1938 (min wag elevels, although still less than men)
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21st amendment
1933 end of the prohibition
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WWII
350,000 in armed forces 5 mill more working women in 1945 than 1940 women were less willing to return to the home, 75% wanted to remian large amounts lade off to allow for men to return after war unmarried owmen entered the servic industry
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servicemens readjustment act 1944
allowed ex-servicmene easier acsess to higher education, increasing the no of them in higher education
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cold war
increased younger marriages and birth rates due to uncertainty about the future
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work in the 1960s
* twice as many working than in 1940 * second income in a family was acceptable * older women, with grown children also entered * service industry booming in the 1950s * russian deployment of satelite increased technology jobs
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JFK
* first president to seriously consider the role of women * equal pay act indicated equal pay for women but also promoted special training for owmen in marriage and childrearing - which indicated that women were primarily motheres and wives * also reluctant to respind to sangersp pressure on the provision sof BC
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Presidetns commision on the staus of women
1963 by jfk introdudced the tarining for marriage and motherhood but also the equal pay act
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equal pay act
1963 - JFK there should be no discimination based on sex when men and women are doing the same job
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Civil rights act 1964
intended to end disricmination planned by jfk, implemented by johnson
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equal opprountities commision
responsible for ensuring that the equal pay and and civil righst act are followed inrtoduced by johnson
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NOW
National orgaisation for women set up in 1966 by betty friedman press for equality using libbyung, lawsuits and seeking public support became more agressve in 1968, throwing bras an high heel shoes away and later aboriton represnets a new wave of feminism
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1968
ceremonial burial of womanhood in virginia and protests about the vietnam war
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the feminist
a radical splinter group of NOW formed in new yrok in 1968, they believed taht to be truly libertaed women should seperate themsleves from men - particularly opposed to marriage
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1969
sheep crowned in protest of the miss world comepititon
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NARAL
1969 national organisation for teh repeal of abortion laws - betty friedman
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i am woman
a song by helen reddy that became an anthem for feminism
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Roe v wade
1973 roes lawyers bleived it violated consitutional rights of privacy to ban abortion when heard in the suprmee court it was rules that the govemrnemt were unable to govern abortion sin teh first trimester or those of medical detrimence to the mother in the 2nd and 3rd
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phyliss schlafly
anti-feminist believed that those in support of aboriton were not true women and drove the anit-aboriton campaign
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National right to life comitee
one fo the many opponents to roe v wade - involved in volence and deaths of aboriton doctors and attacks on aboriton clinic
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national comitee to stop teh ERA
set up by schlafly in 1972, utilising the fear of women bein foced to enlist in the army and use unisex tolets and lack of portection from heavy industry
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ERA
began in the 1920s the belief that teh vote would not secure equal righst and would unsucsessfully be presneted to congress between 1923 and 1972 when it was eventually passed by congress in 1972 but the majority required to pas in 19799 was not met
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national womens policitcal caucus
1971 encoruaged and prepared women to stand for election. the number fo women staning for congress and state doubled between 1974 and 1994 geralidne ferraro ran for vice president
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shirley chisholm
became the first black women to campaign for presidential election in 1972
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increase in women in state elections voting
1970s more involved in polticis,19/100 of the us biggest citiies had female mayors
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president bush
vetoed a bill to provide paternal leave - idniating some hostility
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radical lesbians
claimed that women would only be liberated through lesbianism and emanded abortion rights in the 1970s
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sucsessful women in the 1980s
50% were childless

History - Civil rights (W) (14 decks)

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