Women Rights Flashcards
Who open a series of mile
Francis C. Lowell
What else did he build
Boarding houses
4 facts about women in Lowell mills
- Worked 12 hrs a day
- 2 men overseed
- 10:00 was the curfew (4-8 women a room)
- 3/4 of the women worked and lived together
Result of 1834 strike
Within on week they were back to work reduced wages (not successful)
Why 1834 strike was important
Simply because it took place
Women were viewed as ____ during the strikes
Unfeminine and ungrateful
Lowell mills exploit and liberated them how
They gave the a job that wasn’t in a house but they payed women low wages
True womanhood
Women should be at homemakers that should take responsibility for developing their children’s character
Song lyric
She knows a women’s place is right there at home
Seneca falls convention
Beginning to the struggle by women for complete equality with men and start of the push for women voting rights
Stanton promoted the Seneca Falls convention as
First time that women gathered together to demand the right to vote
Suffrage
Right to vote
One result from the convention
Reformers convinced 15 states to pass laws permitting married women to retain property if their spouse died
Why were some male supporters not so helpful
They were abolitionist who preferred to concentrate on abolishing slavery before helping women gain right to vote
How did civil war help women
Courage and energy shown by women during this time helped break the belief that women were weaker than men
Why were women disappointed after the war
They were left out of the constitutional amendment 15 which states that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race,color, or previous condition of servitude
