Colonialism
This young woman was a crucial link between English settlers and the Powhatan tribe in Virginia. Disney made a movie about her.
Who was Pocahontas?
This woman wrote poems about the glories of the Revolution, while noting that men and women like her were not free.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
The act of either limiting or banning the sale, manufacturing, or distribution of alcohol.
What is temperance?
At the beginning of the 1800's, many young women in New England started to work in this industry to earn extra money for themselves before marriage.
What was the textile industry?
This woman was a runaway slave, a spy for the Union Army, and led 100's of enslaved men and women to the North or Canada.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
No one knows how it started, but about a dozen girls in hysterics accused 100's of people of witchcraft, and led 20 to their deaths in this town.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
This was a woman who travelled from camp to camp with the Continental Army. She would cook, nurse, mend uniforms, and sometimes fight along side her husband.
Who was a Molly Pitcher?
This reform movement usually went hand in hand with the women's rights movement. Most women leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were leaders in this movement first.
What is the Abolition movement?
This school was the first college dedicated to teaching young women math and sciences.
What is the Troy Seminary?
A few Northern and Southern women did this when just staying at home during the war was NOT enough during the Civil War.
This type of person agreed to work for a person for a limited amount of time in return for passage to the New World.
What is an indentured servant?
This was NOT an advertisement for any political party. It was the idea that American women were to raise strong citizens in the new United States.
What was "republican motherhood?"
This statement of issues and grievances regarding the state of women's rights at the time was read and published at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This woman was a student at Mount Holyoke, then started her own school before becoming a leader in the Women's movement. She also believed in keeping her family name after marriage.
Who was Lucy Stone?
This occupation was originally discouraged by Southern women at the beginning of the war, but both Northern and Southern women did this even on active battlefields.
What is nursing?
Following Elizabeth Key's trial, the Virginia Colonial government passed a law that made the status of children born to mothers of African descent come from this side of the family.
What is the mother's side of the family?
Following the revolution, men and women began to marry for this rather than economic or social climbing.
What is LOVE?
This woman advocated for the mentally ill in the United States in the early 19th century.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Enslaved women usually feared this act from their male owners.
What is rape?
Many Southern women did this during the war to help their states, and the Union didn't catch on until at least 1863. There's a lot you can hide under a hoop skirt...
What is smuggling?
This woman was banished from the Massachusetts colony because she dared to lead religious services in her home.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This woman wrote to her husband while he was with the Continental Congress to remind him to "remember the ladies"
Who was Abigail Adams?
This man made the final vote in adding that suffrage be added to the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Most enslaved women refused to do either of these tactics as resistance due to the fact they needed to care for their children.
What is revolt or run away/escape?
Based on one of the Primary sources we examined last class, what was the main concern for many formerly enslaved women after the Civil War?
What was reuniting with their families?