Women (la la la la la la la) Flashcards

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Sacagawea

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  • Federalist Era
  • helped Lewis and Clark expedition
  • negotiated treaties and trade on behalf of the United States
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Phillis Wheatley

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  • Slavery in America
  • second ever woman, first African-American woman, to publish a book
  • prominent voice against slavery
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Women’s Suffrage Movement

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • women had restricted roles
  • women began getting education
  • used education to support reforms
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Temperance Movement

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
  • lowered consumption from 7 to 2 drinks per day
  • promoted new laws against drinking on Sunday, domestic abuse, and public drunkeness
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Beecher Family

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • Isabella Beecher (Women’s Suffreage Movement)
  • Henery Beecher (Abolitionist Movement)
  • Harriet Beecher (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”)
  • Catherine Beecher (education)
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Dorthea Dix <3

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • majority of prisoners had mental health illneses or were disabled
  • travelled 30,000 miles to get evidence for prison reform
  • male representative presented case to Massacusett’s government
  • created first mental health hospital
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Grimke Sisters

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • abolitionists
  • Sarah Grimke (writings went to The Liberator)
  • Angelina Grimke (speaker)
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Sojourner Truth

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • abolitionist and feminist
  • “Ain’t I a Woman”
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Susan B. Anthony

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • abolitionist and member of Temperance Movement
  • created National Women’s Suffrage Association
  • published “The Revolution” (magezine)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • women’s rights, abolition, and temperance
  • created National Women’s Sufrage Association
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Declaration of Sentiments
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Lucretia Mott

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • women’s rights and abolition
  • Anti-Slavery Society
  • worked with William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass
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Seneca Falls Convention

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  • Reform Movements in the 1800s
  • women’s rights
  • rejected from Anti-Slavery Convention in London, so made their own convention
  • signed Delcaration of Sentiments
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Ida Tarbell

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  • Progressive Era
  • muckraker
  • “History of the Standard Oil Company”
  • against J. D. Rockefeller
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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  • Progressive Era
  • no fire buiding codes
  • 145 people died (80% women)
  • women went on strike recently, but this is what reformed conditions
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Muller v. Oregon

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  • Roaring Twenties
  • Oregon laws restricted hours women could work
  • women couldn’t negotiage better conditions, so they sued
  • Supreme Court ruled for the state to “protect them”
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Altanta Washerwoman Strike

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  • Roaring Twenties
  • women went on strike for better wages, conditions, and hours
  • one of the few successful strikes