Women

Question 1

Civil War (turning point)

Answer 1

Allowed women to fulfil both household roles for a period of time. Community focused and established themselves as a civilising force. Involvement in abolition campaign.

Question 2

Gilded Age 1875-1895 (turning point)

Answer 2

Increased economic progress led to greater opportunities for women in the service industries and clerical work. However, very limited in union representation.

Question 3

19th Amendment m(turning point)

Answer 3

Establishes the right to vote for all women over 21yrs.

Question 4

World Wars (turning point)

Answer 4

Economic opportunities proves women are capable of the same work as men. Greater independence & money.

Question 5

1960’s (turning point)

Answer 5

Feminist movement established

Question 6

1980’s (turning point)

Answer 6

Higher levels of education and more female entrepreneurs.

Question 7

Susan B Anthony

Answer 7

Led abolitionist movement and president of

Freedman’s Savings Bank.

Question 8

Sojourner Truth

Answer 8

African American abolition campaigner and ex-slave.

Question 9

Lucretia Mott

Answer 9

Quaker teacher and abolitionist, organised Seneca

Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments.

Question 10

Elizabeth Cady

Stanton

Answer 10

Worked with Mott & Anthony, set up NWSA and

Seneca Falls Convention.

Question 11

Elizabeth Lease

Answer 11

Opposed to big business and set up protests against
railways to protect farming. Member of Populist
Party.

Question 12

Lucy Stone

Answer 12

Abolitionist, urged equal pay and refused to pay

taxes due to lack of representation in govt.

Question 13

Alice Paul

Answer 13

Founded National Women’s Party in 1916 and

pushed for ERA in the 1920s.

Question 14

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 14

Succeeded Anthony to head NAWSA and effective
in gaining state support for suffrage, led to 19 th
Amendment.

Question 15

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 15

Wife of FDR and avid supporter of women’s rights.

Question 16

Ella Baker

Answer 16

Member of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, grass roots activist.

Question 17

Betty Friedan

Answer 17

Wrote the ‘Feminine Mystique’ expressing middle
class discontent.

Question 18

Margaret Sanger

Answer 18

Set up first birth control clinic in America in 1916.

Question 19

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 19

Conservative journalist who spoke out against

feminism, abortion rights and ERA.

Question 20

Martha Griffiths

Answer 20

First female, Democrat Senator elected to Congress.

Question 21

What two women rights organisations were founded in 1869, and what year did they merge?

Answer 21

National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA)
American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)
Merged in 1890

Question 22

What organisation was founded in 1874?

Answer 22

Women Christian Temperance Union

Question 23

What did Margaret Sangers open in 1917?

Answer 23

First birth US control clinic

Question 24

When was the 19th Amendment passed and what did it guarantee?

Answer 24

1920, women over 21 the vote

Question 25

Who became the first women in presidential cabinet, and when?

Answer 25

1933, Francis Perkins

Question 26

Significance of 1941?

Answer 26

US enters WW2, 7 million women support war effort

Question 27

Significance of 1957?

Answer 27

Men and women voting participation becomes equal

Question 28

What two events occurred in 1963?

Answer 28

Equal Pay Act and Betty Friedan’s, The Feminist Mystique published

Question 29

When was National Organisation for Women founded?

Answer 29

1966

Question 30

Why was 1972 very significant?

Answer 30

Equal Rights Amendment passed BY Congress, but NEVER ratified

Question 31

When and why was the right to abortion established?

Answer 31

1973 Roe Vs Wade

Question 32

Who was the first female Vice President of the Democrats and when was she appointed?

Answer 32

Geraldine Ferraro in 1984

Question 33

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 33

Supported 19th Amendment

Question 34

FDR

Answer 34

New Deal, some benefits for women

Question 35

Harry Truman

Answer 35

Post war encouraged women to return to housework

Question 36

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 36

Conservative opinions, little impact on women

Question 37

JFK

Answer 37

Commissioned a “report on American women” , yet limited action

Question 38

LBJ

Answer 38

Supportive of reform and “Great Society” ideas

Question 39

Richard Nixon

Answer 39

Affirmative action offered some benefits to women

Question 40

Ronald Reagan

Answer 40

Conservative in attitudes towards women and prevented ERA being ratified