American world history Flashcards
for final (80 cards)
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146 workers, more than a quarter of the employees died?
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire March 25,1911
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what is public housekeeping
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women’s activism in the progressive era
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new gen women changed the slogan for movement from “woman suffrage” in favor of contemporary sounding slogan what was it?
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votes for women
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she created the first birth control movement
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Margret sanger
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Harry burn got a note from his mother that said “Dont forget to be a good boy” she wrote him, “and help Mrs.Catt put the “Rat” in Ratification” what did burn do as a result and in which state?
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casted the deciding vote for the 19th amendment in TN
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exempted physicians from the restrictions surrounding the distribution of contraceptives and contributed to the subsequent dismantling of the Comstock Act in later court cases.
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United States v one package of Japanese pessaries 1936
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cheerful women in overalls working in the defense industry, taking on new and challenging work to serve her country in the time of need
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Rosie the riveter
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term that encompassed a wide range of sexual play short of intercourse
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petting
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first African American to preform with the new York metropolitan opera in 1955
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Marian Anderson
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during this era (progressive) 8 out of 10 of these were women
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teachers
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according to betty friedan in the feminine mystique American women were suffering from this
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the problem that has no name
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1968 protest against a miss America beauty pageant in AC created this myth
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Bra burning feminist
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JFK created this in 1961
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presidents commission of the status of women
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this book expressed outrage that the pursuit of profits and the thougtless embrace of technology and science had undermined the natural enviorment
who is the author and the book?
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silent spring, Rachel Carson
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labor leader and civil rights activists who co founded the national farmworkers association
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Dolores Huerta
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2 main reasons for the sexual revolution
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birth control pill, plus the idea that medicine could cure any sexual transmitted disease.
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consisted of small groups of women, dozen women meeting weekly, sharing personal and private aspects of their lives in order to understand female subordination.
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Counsciousness-raising
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new yorker ti grace Atkinson declared “feminism is the theory.” what did she say is the practice?
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lesbianism
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one of the boldest statements of this came from shulamith Firestone who was a 24 year old whose book the dialectic of sex; the case for feminist revolution 1970 became a international seller
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radical feminist theory
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the first woman president at the Chicano student movement to Aztlan MECHA
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Anna nieto gomez
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code word
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eco feminism
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the domination of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected.
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Ecofeminism
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began 2012 with a focus on sexual harassment body shaming and rape culture
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fourth wave feminism
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- Congress attempted to address the endemic problem by passing this legislation named for a woman who had been raped and murdered in her own dorm room.
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The Jeanne celery disclosure of campus security policy and campus crime. Statistics act
CELERY ACT 
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Name the five women who have served on the US Supreme Court
Sandra Day O’Connor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Amy Connie Barret
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Feminist punk subculture in the early 90s that marked the beginning of the third wave feminism
RIOT GRRL
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The women’s trade union league met November 22, 1909 to discuss a strike in the shirtwaist industry. How many went on strike the next day?
20-30,000
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Feminist and union leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn led children out of Lawrence MA to protect them during a strike in 1912 on their way they were beaten by the police and mothers were imprisoned for neglect by local courts. How did this help their cause?
Nationwide outrage was so great that the employers were forced to agree to the strikers demands for a 54 hour week and wage increases as high as 25%
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This legislation brought midwife education classes to black, Mexican , American, and immigrant practitioners while also contributing to the eventual decline of lay midwives through the medicalization of childbirth
Shepherd towner act of 1921
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National war labor board issued an order in November 1942 calling for equal wages for women when riveters and electricians. What was the NWLB main motivation for the order?
Not undercut men’s wages
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First introduced in Congress in 1923. It stated men and women shall have equal rights through throughout the United States and every place subject to it jurisdiction.
Equal rights amendment ERA
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Led to 40,000 Chinese women immigrated to the US
War brides act of 1945 and 1953 refuge relief act.
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 pharmacologist for the federal drug administration received the government’s distinguished service metal and with a close friend of Rachel Carson
Francis Kelsey
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Widespread attention beginning in 2017 after it was revealed that film Mogul Harvey Weinstein had four years, sexually harassed and assaulted women in the industry
Me too
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This band tour flyer became a manifesto for the riot grrrl movement
Bikini kill
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Code word
Bikini kill
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The Supreme Court case that legalize gay marriage
Obergefell v Hodges 2015
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Ambition to replace the traditional middle class family with a radically different alternative created a feminist revolt against expected norms of domesticity and motherhood
Counterculture
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In 1966 it became a black power organization voting to expel its white members and embracing the goal of black self-determination
Student nonviolent coordinating committee SNCC
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Anthropologist Gayle Rubin described it as a set of arrangements by which of the biological raw material of human sex and procreation is shaped by human and social intervention. What is she defining?
Gender
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What is yellow prostitution?
Kow towing to the yellow male ego by aiding the Madison Avenue and Hollywood version of white femininity
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Prohibit sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs
Title 9
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Campaign for the 19th amendment and served as president of national American women suffrage association 1900 through 1904, 1915 through 1920
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Under her, the NWP focused exclusively on the ERA as a means of achieving political and economic equality
Alice Paul
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Her work was crucial to the success of astronaut John Glenn’s 1962 orbit as well as the Apollo mission of 1969
Catherine Peddrew Johnson
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First female, principal, chief of the Cherokee nation, and spent her life fighting for the rights of American Indians
Wilma Mankiller
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Kenyan social, environmental and political activist, and the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize
Wangari Maathai
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Her speech how the sisters are hindered from helping at the 1900 national Baptist convention in Virginia instantly won her fame and recognition
Nannie Burroughs
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Documentary photographer, and photojournalist best known for her photograph of a migrant mother
Dorothea Lange
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First woman, elected governor in her own right in 1974 and reelected in 1978
Ella grasso
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Name the three women who have served as US Secretary of State
Madeline Albright 1997 to 2001
Dr. Condoleezza Rice 2005 to 2009
Hillary Clinton 2009 to 2013
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Her testimony about Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas led to the year of the woman
Anita Hill
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The two categories of work that women were most likely to be employed in during the era
Domestic manufacturing
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The first university to create a graduate school that was mostly attended by women
University of Chicago graduate school of social service administration 
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This womans organization repeatedly refused to condemn discrimination against African-American women and allowed southern white affiliates to refuse them membership
NAWSA
national American woman suffered Association
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In the 1930s Los Angeles lost one third of its Mexican population many of whom were citizen children of immigrant parents why?
Deportations
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1920s young devil may care with her short dress, rouge face and roll stocking symbolize the new woman rebelling against the restraint of Victorian womanhood
What was she called?
A flapper
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Who shared the president’s commission on the status of women?
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The gay rights movement was not supportive of transgender people initially, why not?
Saw those who wanted to live their lives as and changed their bodies to the other sex is embracing the gender stereotypes that movement opposed
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In 1969 a group of Native Americans began a two-year occupation of an abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz island. Why?
Protest the policies of the bureau of Indian affairs and to draw attention to the historical oppression of the Native Americans
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As many as 4.6 million people attended this event on January 21, 2017
Women’s March
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Name the four women who have been presidential or vice presidential nominees for a major party ticket
Geraldine Ferraro
Sarah palin
Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris
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What were Perkins three motivations
For god, FDR and the millions of common working men
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What was the tragedy that fueled Perkins activism?
Triangle fire
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Before Perkins was willing to take the job of secretary of labor, she ticked off a list of eight items she wanted FDR to agree to first.
name three of them
40 hour work week, minimum wage, workers compensation, unemployment compensation, federal law, banning child labor, unemployment relief, Social Security, public employment and health insurance
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Code word
40 hour work week
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How did Perkins play affect the movie “sound of music?”
she helped the Von trapp family get to the US
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Summertime is secretary of labor until her death union membership went up by seven times. How did Perkins help make that happen?
Drafted the first law in America that gave Americans the right to collectively bargain for better wages and benefits
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A second generation, Irish American, she organized a powerful teachers union which removed control of appointments from local politicians
Mary Haley
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African-American civil rights attorney, who said “arbitrary discrimination against women violated the 14th amendment in the same way radical bias did.”
Pauli Murray
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Politician, educator and author in 1968 she became the first black woman elected to the United States. Congress representing New York’s 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.
Shirley Chisholm
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First openly, gay person elected to a state legislature
MA in 1975 Elaine noble
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She’s the only woman to serve as national security advisor and Secretary of State
Dr. condoleezza rice
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In 2016 out of every five households, how many included a married couple with children
One
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What happened in New York City on June 27, 1969
Stonewall riots
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What were Rachel Carson‘s two majors in college?
English and biology
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In 1912 MA passed a law establishing a max number of someone who could work poor week, how many?
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Who said “ of my two handicaps being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
Barbara Jordan
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The feminine mystique 1963 and silence spring 1962 both change America forever some are you that they are the two most important books of the 20th century which book had the bigger effect and why explain why the other book had less impact what role did the two authors play in defending feminism make sure to define feminism prior to the books release and after the release, how are they different?
The Feminine Mystique (1963, Betty Friedan): Criticized the limited domestic role of women and revealed their deep dissatisfaction
Silent Spring (1962, Rachel Carson): Exposed the environmental harm of pesticides, especially DDT
The Feminine Mystique had the bigger effect because it sparked second-wave feminism, led to lasting social change, and directly affected millions of women's lives in public and private spheres.
silent spring led to:
Raised awareness of environmental dangers
Led to the ban on DDT
Inspired creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Influenced policy, but didn’t launch a large-scale, sustained movement like feminism
What was feminism like before The Feminine Mystique?
Focused mostly on voting rights (first-wave feminism)
Women were expected to be housewives and mothers
Feminism was largely inactive in the 1950s
What changed after The Feminine Mystique?
Sparked second-wave feminism
Focused on equality in work, education, politics, and personal freedom
Women organized, protested, and demanded equal rights
Friedan co-founded NOW to push for change
How did Betty Friedan and Rachel Carson define feminism differently?
Friedan: Directly reshaped feminism by showing how societal norms oppressed women; became a leader in the feminist movement
Carson: Focused on science and environmental justice; her work was empowering but not part of the feminist movement itself
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In 1989 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Professor of Law at Columbia University) coined the term Intersectionality. Define Intersectionality. And provide at least three examples of intersections. Provide a brief history of activism in at least one of those interactions. How does Intersectionality affect the quest for women’s rights? Which intersections provide the most challenges for American women and why?
What is intersectionality, and who coined the term?
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Intersectionality is a concept created by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. It describes how different aspects of identity—like race, gender, class, and sexuality—intersect and create unique and compounded experiences of discrimination or privilege.
👉 It helps explain why not all women experience sexism the same way.
Why does intersectionality matter in feminism?
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Because mainstream feminism often focused on the experiences of white, middle-class women, intersectionality pushes feminism to include women who are also Black, poor, LGBTQ+, disabled, or otherwise marginalized.
👉 Without intersectionality, large groups of women are ignored in conversations about equality.
What are three key intersection examples?
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Race + Gender: Black and Latina women face both racism and sexism.
Class + Gender: Poor women often lack access to healthcare, education, and safe housing.
Gender + Sexuality: LGBTQ+ women face both sexism and homophobia, often even within feminist spaces.
👉 These layers of identity create deeper, more complex barriers.
How have Black women historically organized around intersectionality?
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In the 1960s–70s, Black feminists like bell hooks, Angela Davis, and the Combahee River Collective spoke out against racism in feminism and sexism in civil rights groups.
👉 They argued that their experiences weren’t fully represented by either movement and demanded a feminism that recognized race and class too.
Q: How does intersectionality impact women’s rights today?
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Women of color are more likely to face poverty, violence, and health disparities.
Immigrant women may fear seeking help due to legal status or language barriers.
LGBTQ+ women are often excluded from policy protections.
👉 Intersectionality shows that laws or movements aimed at “all women” don’t always reach the most vulnerable women.
What challenges do non-intersectional feminist movements face?
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They often fail to address the full reality of most women’s lives
Risk being seen as exclusive or elitist
Can unintentionally support systems of oppression by ignoring class, race, or sexuality
👉 This weakens the feminist movement’s credibility and power.
How can intersectionality improve activism and policy?
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By ensuring that feminism:
Listens to diverse voices
Includes marginalized women in leadership
Designs policies that consider overlapping challenges (like offering translation in healthcare, or paid leave that helps low-income mothers)
👉 It leads to more just, inclusive, and effective change.
