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Abortion was not illegal until _____

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1860/1880

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Comstock law

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Made it illegal to send obscene contents in the u.s. Mail including birth control

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3 reasons birth control info was regulated

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  1. Sexual activity
  2. Population size
  3. The role of women
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Most popular form of birth control?

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Douching and rhythm

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What year did they figure out when the best time for douching and rhythm was?

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1924

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Major problems for pioneer women?

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Disease

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Most important reasons for prejudice against immigrants?

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They were willing to work for less, therefore job competitiveness

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Why did so few women join unions?

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  1. Saw jobs as temporary
  2. Unions did not want women
  3. Danger factor
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Major complaints of the working girls in Boston

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  1. Hours too long
  2. Health conditions (I.e. Bad air)
  3. Not enough time to eat
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Chinese prostitution

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The families sold girls into prostitution when they came to America

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Which state passed the property law which gave women the right to vote

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Connecticut

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Seneca falls

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1848

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Mt. Holyoke college

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1837

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Wyoming grants women the right to vote

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1870

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Mother Harris jones

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achieve equality and justice for the country’s industrial laborers.

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Lucretia Mott

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Known for: initiating Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Occupation: reformer: antislavery and women’s rights activist; Quaker minister

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Lucy stone

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Speaker ( she helped found the American Equal Rights Association. She also organized and was elected president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association,)

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Elizabeth cady Stanton

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Philosopher ( Lecturing across the country, she spoke on topics like maternity, child rearing, divorce law, temperance, and presidential campaigns.)

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Susan b. Anthony

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Organizer

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Margaret fuller

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1st american women philosopher & first real newspaper reporter

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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1st women doctor/ applied to 29 medical schools

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Antoinette brown Blackwell

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1st ordained women minister in a Congregational church, became a Unitarian

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Dorothea Dix

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Got mentally ill people out of jail and into separate mental institutions

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Belva Lockwood

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1st women admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court/ had to get congress to pass a bill that would allow her to practice before the Supreme Court

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Clara Barton

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1st female federal government founded the Red Cross & helped the bill that prohibited militants from shooting a wounded militant

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Victoria woodhill & Tennessee caflin

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1st female stockbrokers

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Victoria woodhill

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1st female stock broker and founded a newspaper on free love, legalizing prostitution