Colonial Era
This young woman was the link between English Settlers and Native Americans in Colonial Virginia from 1607-1615
Who was Matoaka, or Pocahontas?
This woman asked her husband, a future President of the United States to "remember the ladies" when forming a new government.
Who was Abigail Adams?
This monarch became the role model of British and American women in the 19th century.
Who was Queen Victoria?
The movement to limit or ban alcohol.
What is temperance?
This woman led numerous enslaved people to the North and later spied for Federal troops during the war.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This type of woman was the only woman able to own property, which made her very popular with other men.
What was a widow?
This was a group of women, not an individual, who went from battlefield to battlefield with their husbands and at least twice fought the British alongside them.
Who were the "Molly Pitchers?"
This woman opened up the first real institute of higher learning for young women in New York State. Within 10 years her students were learning Greek, Latin, Astronomy, and Trigonometry.
Who was Emma Willard?
The southern born Grimke sisters were popular speakers for this cause.
What is Abolition, or the end of slavery?
This Angel of the Battlefield helped find the final resting places of thousands of Federal soldiers through out the south following the War, and later formed the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
This woman, known as the first female religious leader in America, was banished for daring to teach religion in her home.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This concept meant that American mothers were to raise their children to be good American citizens.
What is "Republican Motherhood?"
If you wanted to attend Mount Holyoke, but did not have the money, Mary Lyon would admit you, as long as you worked at the school and did this.
What is pass the entrance exam?
This woman was accepted into medical school as a joke, but became a doctor. She later had to open up her own hospital for poor women in New York City, because no hospital would hire her.
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell?
Although there were fears of a possible slave revolt during the war, most southern women were more scared of this.
What is the idea that their slaves would leave them alone?
If you needed passage to go to the colonies, but did not have the money, you could become one of these and work until your debt was paid off.
What was an indentured servant?
A woman left behind during the revolution could be forced to do this, or give up her home to British Soldiers. This act led to an amendment forbidding the practice in the Constitution.
What is Quartering?
During the 19th century more and more young people were marrying for this, rather than stability and wealth.
What is love, or affection?
This woman took the Temperance cause to the extreme. With a Bible in one hand, and an axe in the other.
Who was Carrie Nation?
Most new freedmen were hoping that their wives would be working only here.
What is in their own home?
Following the Elizabeth Key case, the colony of Virginia changed the legal status of children to follow this parent, creating the basis for chattel slavery in the American South.
What is the mother?
In the 1700's this began to be more of a focus for American women, since they were expected to be at home with their children more often.
What is motherhood?
This woman took the risk of having her schools burned to the ground because she admitted African American girls to her schools.
Who was Prudence Crandall?
The men and women in both the Abolition and Temperance movement would later become leaders in this movement.
What is the Suffrage movement?
This organization led to organized nursing through out the North, as well as cleaner medical tools and facilities during the war.
What is the United States Sanitary Commission?