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Across the Color Line
100
Elizabeth Cady Stanton authored this document for the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
What is The Declaration of Sentiments
100
This group left England due to religious persecution and brought families with them to colonize.
What are the Puritans.
100
Puritans allowed for the education of women "to their purpose." So did three other groups. Name one of the other three.
What are the Quakers, Dutch, and Native Americans.
100
The education of women increased from 50% to nearly 100% in New England during this period: late 1700s, early 1800s, Reconstruction, early 20th century.
What is the early 1800s (this occurred by 1840).
100
Black women have always faced TWO obstacles in their fight for equality. One is racism. Name the other.
What is sexism. (Even among other blacks this was true. For example: Stokley Carmichael said the best position for a women in the Civil Rights Movement was "prone.")
200
Refusing to give up her seat on the bus, this woman was the impetus for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks. (Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat on a train nearly 50 years prior and also spearheaded a trolly car boycott well before the situation in Montgomery Alabama.)
200
This group of young women unionized and went on strike against management due to a 15% wage reduction under the rallying cry "Union is Power."
Who were the Lowell Mill Girls.
200
Primogeniture and Dower Rights--Only one applies to women. Name the law that helped protect early colonial women.
What is Dower Rights (aka Rule of Thirds--the wife legally was required to inherit at minimum 1/3 of her husband's estate when he died.
200
The women's vote became very important under this administration when it became clear they could be swayed to vote as a bloc.
What is the Kennedy Administration.
200
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) essentially legalized segregation by permitting "separate but equal" facilities for blacks. THIS Supreme Court case reversed Plessy. Name this case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
300
She fought for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment her entire life.
Who is Alice Paul. (the ERA never passed)
300
The need for output increased in manufacturing in the rise of the industrial age, women paid a high price. This tragedy took the lives of over 100 women in the garment district of New York City.
What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
300
Feme Sole Trader allowed women to engage in business outside the coverature of the "males" in their lives. Only two states had this law. Name one of the two.
What are Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
300
The National Woman's Party chose to picket the White House to bring awareness to their cause. They were then called this.
What are "Silent Sentinels."
300
Not until World War II did this group begin lobbying for equal rights.
What are Native Americans. Swift v. Leach (1920) gave them voting rights ONLY IF they renounced their tribal affiliation. Most Native Americans did not do that.
400
These sisters became the first female physicians in the United States.
Who are the Blackwell sisters. (Elizabeth and Emily)
400
This group of feminists tried to toss off oppression and attempted to entirely EXCLUDE men from their lives.
What were radical feminists.
400
This set of laws prohibited birth control and birth control literature under an "obscenity clause" until well into the 20th century.
What were the Comstock Laws.
400
This group of feminists believed that capitalism itself was the root of ALL evil.
What were socialist feminists.
400
The DuParc Plantation, run primarily by women, followed a specific set of laws handed required by the French when they owned Louisiana called Code Noir. How did the French look at slaves under French law?
What is a citizen of France. (every slave was considered a citizen of France regardless of their status)
500
This woman rose above the segregated south to become fluent in 6 languages, be a concert pianist, a concert violinist, and gain her PhD.
Who is Condalezza Rice.
500
Although women did not have the right to vote according to FEDERAL laws until 1920, a number of states gave them the right to vote before that time. This state has the earliest known record of a state permitting the female vote was just after the Revolutionary War.
What is New Jersey (1790s) Women were mentioned explicitly in their laws providing they met the property requirement and a voter was defined as he OR she at that time. It was later rescinded.
500
Roe v. Wade (1973) has a clause in its decision that forces the legal and scientific community to revisit this decision frequently, although most of the public are unaware it exists. Describe the clause.
What is the fetal viability clause. The fetus can only be aborted while it cannot be maintained outside the womb. In 1973 that was much farther into a pregnancy than it is today.
500
Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea both appear on a dollar coin that is still considered legal tender in the US. Name the other female who had her own coin minted in 2012.
Who is Alice Paul. Her coin was minted as part of the "first spouse" collection.
500
A very influential First Lady said this about women's rights. "The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it." Name this First Lady.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt.
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