Women In History Flashcards
Woman who was banished by Puritans because of her intelligence?
Anne Hutchinson
How were Puritan women treated?
Horribly, given no rights
How were women in the Chesapeake Region treated?
Valuable, sense of importance in home
How were colonial women treated?
Horribly, given no rights, cannot testify, accept inheritance, could be beaten legally
Organization created by women during pre revolution times that spoke out against the crown?
Daughters of Liberty
Who said “remember the ladies” about the writing of the constitution?
Abigail Adams
Belief that women should teach children to be virtuous, and that is their only job?
Republican Motherhood
Movement in which women’s importance was diminished and the home became the woman’s place?
Cult of True Womanhood or Domesticity
Name for immediate family?
Nuclear family
Four points of true womanhood under Cult of Domesticity?
- Religious
- Purity (virginity until marriage)
- Submissive (passive bystanders)
- Domestication (home is woman’s place, keep husbands humane)
Where was the 1st factory located?
Pawtucket, RI
What was mainly a woman’s occupation during the antebellum period?
Factory workers
Who created the first power factory in which the factory completed all aspects of production?
Paul Moody
Where was the first power-factory located?
Waltham, MA
First magazine produced by women? Who produced it?
“Lowell Offering,” and the Lowell girls
F.C Lowell’s vision for Walthan factory? Did it work out?
Develop minds, good quality of life, save their money/ no, competition could pay less
Main reformer of education during antebellum period?
Horace Mann
Main reformer of prison system and treatment of the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Good public speaker for women?
Francis Wright
Who wrote “History of the Condition of Women?”
Lydia Marie Child
Who wrote “Women in the 19th Century,” and said “I know of no intellect comparable to my own?”
Margaret Fuller
What magazine did Margaret Fuller edit?
The Dial
Who were the leaders of Seneca falls?
Stanton and Mott
Declaration written at Seneca falls?
Declaration of sentiments
Convention in Worchester, MA which had both men and women involved?
National Women’s Rights Convention
What did the American Equal Rights Association advocate for? And who was the leader of the organization?
Universal suffrage, Lucretia Mott
Who were the leaders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association?
Stanton and Anthony
What faction did the NWSA believe should be able to vote?
Black men and women
Who were the leaders of the American Women’s Suffrage Association?
Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone
What did the American Women’s Suffrage Association advocate for?
Voting rights for black men, women come later
Why did the AERA break up?
Advocated for universal suffrage, black males did not want black women to vote
Who said “we would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men?”
Margaret Fuller
Who proposed the ERA?
Alice Paul
Why did the NWSA and AWSA combine, and what was the new name of the organization?
Losing momentum, NAWSA
Who was the leader of the NAWSA?
Carrie Chapman Catt
What organization did Alice Paul create after she left the NAWSA? What did they do for the first time?
National women’s party, picket the White House
Which amendment gave women suffrage?
19
Who formed the Anti-Saloon League?
Wayne wheeler
Who developed the first female secondary school?
Emma Willard
What was the first college to admit women?
Oberlan College, 4 women
Who was the first woman to attend medical school and get a doctorate?
Elizabeth Blackwell
What were independent women during the jazz period called?
Flappers
Who was the most radical woman figure in the temperance movement?
Carrie A. Nation
What act allowed for implementation of the 18th amendment?
Volstead Act
Under which president was the equal employment opportunity commission put into effect?
JFK
Who founded NOW?
Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem
Who was the advocate for birth control during the 1920s?
Margaret Sanger
Magazine edited by Gloria Steinum?
Ms. Magazine
What did the national women political caucus advocate for? Who founded it?
Women get involved in politics, Gloria Steinum
