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What did many middle class women do before the Civil War?
Devoted their time to the care of their homes and families
100
What amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
100
What event first seriously formulated the demand of rights for American women?
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
100
What two organizations emerged from the rift between the feminists?
National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association
100
In the 1820s, what was the typical ideal image of a woman?
Pious, a submissive wife and mother, concerned only in the home and family
200
What were women’s roles in the South and Midwest?
• Cooking • Making clothes • Laundering • Raising livestock • Plowing and planting the fields • Harvesting the crops
200
When did women get the right to vote?
August 26, 1920
200
Which president supported women’s right?
President Theodore Roosevelt
200
What are the goals of the National Woman Suffrage Association?
• Work for suffrage on the federal level • Press for more extensive institutional changes
200
In the English-speaking world, what publication is thought to have begun the struggle to achieve equal rights for women?
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Right of Woman (1792)
300
What jobs for women required a high school education?
Office, sales, and teaching jobs
300
Which famous women endorsed the 15th amendment? Why?
Endorsed: Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe – they believed once black men could vote, women would be closer to voting
300
What were some extreme measures radical feminists resorted to?
• Round the clock picket line around the White House • Hunger strike
300
What are the goals of the American Woman Suffrage Association?
• Secure the ballot through state legislation
300
Which US territory became a state and had the first general women’s suffrage?
Wyoming
400
At the turn of the twentieth century, what percentage of women worked in manufacturing?
25%
400
Which famous women refused endorsement of the 15th amendment? Why?
Refused Endorsement: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton – wouldn’t support black men voting when women couldn’t vote
400
What industries feared women getting the right to vote when considering their businesses?
• Liquor: possible support of prohibition • Textile: possible restrictions on child labor
400
What organization did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found in 1869?
National Women Suffrage Organization
400
Which colleges refused to admit women?
• Columbia • Brown • Harvard
500
What percentage of employed women worked as servants in 1870?
70%
500
Who led British women's suffragists?
Emmeline Pankhurst
500
What states granted voting rights to women by the 1890s?
• Wyoming • Utah • Colorado • Idaho
500
When did the two conflicting women's organizations combine and under what name?
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890
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In which country did women first achieve suffrage on a national level?
New Zealand