OCR textbook - position of women in 1865

Question 1

women in public affairs prior to civil war

Answer 1

• active in church societies, sunday schools & religious meetings
• participated in campaign against slavery & often ardent abolitionists
• heroic role in rescuing slaves & helping them reach free territory in north eg. harriet tubman
• promotion of temperance
• development of movement for woman’s suffrage

Question 2

political participation in 1865 (or around)

Answer 2

• 1st convention held for female suffrage = seneca falls, new york 1848
• AA campaigner = sojourner truth
• main instigators of seneca falls = lucretia mott & elizabeth cady stanton

Question 3

sojourner truth

Answer 3

• (isabella baumfree)
• sold into slaverly in 1808
• escaped in 1826
• rescued son from slavery in alabama in 1835
• campaigned for abolition & women’s rights
• eg. speech at womens rights convention 1851 ‘ain’t i a woman?’

Question 4

elizabeth cady stanton

Answer 4

• influenced by leaders of abolitionist movement
• worked with lucretia mott against slavery
• friends w/ susan b. anthony –> led to formation of nation woman suffrage association 1869
• helped organise seneca falls convention in 1848
• campaigned for reform of divorce/property laws

Question 5

lucretia mott

Answer 5

• quaker teacher & social reformer
• founded american anti-slavery society 1833
• helped organise 1848 seneca falls convention –> ‘declaration of sentiments’
• founded american equal rights association 1866

Question 6

economic/social developments - women 1865

Answer 6

before 1865
- develop. of urbanisation
- new tech
- greater literacy
- better education for women

around 1865
- women’s placed believed to be in home (domesticity)
- demands for women to have political representation

Question 7

how did the civil war affect women?

Answer 7

• gave women control over lives/finances
• challenged the view of domesticity
• greater economic responsibility
• economic/social change
• women wanted rights as AA (men) had been granted them

Question 8

the end of the war

Answer 8

• few men supported political rights for women
• view that woman’s place was inside the home (private sphere)
• common female employments = domestic service eg. cleaning
• limited birth control = family size was large