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100
The tangible physical illness that accounted for 1 out of 4 American deaths in the 1830s
What is Tuberculosis or consumption?
100
A favorite all purpose remedy that could actually poison its patients
What is calomel or mercurous chloride?
100
Most male doctors delivered babies without doing this
What is looking between the mother's legs?
100
Histories of American women's rights activism have most often begun with this event
What is the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
100
Soujourner Truth's given name
What is Isabella Bomefree?
200
Deboarah Fiske, who had consumption, raised her own
What are leeches?
200
Name one thing that was injected into a woman's uterus to cure nervous complaints
What are water, milk, or linseed
200
Male doctors resisted the idea of female physicians sometimes making the argument that
What is mensuration made women too mentally unstable?
200
Women mill workers- Yankee farm daughters laboring in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts were protesting this
What are wage cuts?
200
The name of the famous speech that Truth gave in 1851
What is "Ain't I A Woman"
300
A disorder that had symptoms not unlike those the Salem witchcraft accusers exhibited
What is "hysteria"?
300
Many American women suffering from chronic illness reported being relieved by "the cure," which often consisted of
What is long periods at spa-like retreats (with hot tubs, wave-baths etc.)
300
Beginning around 1800, American households began to shrink most likely because of this
What is access to birth control?
300
The most famous example of abolitionist women flouting the gender norms of their day were these two women
Who were Sara and Angelina Grimke?
300
Slavery became illegal in New York in this year
What is 1827?
400
One theory of why many American women did not exercise
What is they were immobilized by their clothing?
400
These were two approaches to medicine (hint: they both begin with an H)
What are hydropaths and homeopaths?
400
Elizabeth Blackwell had trouble renting office space in NY because landowners presumed that she must be this
What is an abortionist?
400
The document that came out of the Seneca Convention, which was signed by 68 women and 32 men.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
400
For years, after the war Sojourner Truth lobbied to convince federal officials about this.
What is to provide land and financial compensation to former slaves?
500
Name four normal things for women that doctors treated as illnesses
What are puberty, menstruation, childbirth, and menopause?
500
Doctors of the time decried the silly fashion of the time and stressed the need for these four things for healthy women
What are exercise, sunlight, temperance, and sensible dress?
500
Often agents distributing ads would use "French" as a code word for this and Portuguese as a code word for this.
What is contraceptive and abortion
500
Organized women's activism on a mass scale first appeared in the decade leading up to the Seneca Convention, arising out of these three movements
What are the industrial labor movement, the temperance movement, and the anti-slavery movement?
500
Sojourner Truth's arguments for these four things has deepened and become quite sophisticated during her years in New York.
What are women's rights, abolition, collective living, and pacifism?