Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Civil Rights > Women's CIvil Rights > Flashcards

Women's CIvil Rights Flashcards

1
Q

Womens workforce statistics in 1900

A
  • 17% of women worked
  • Only 5% of married women worked
  • the social expectation that women would give up their job when they married
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

social spheres

A

women’s sphere is seen as the home and children

Men’s sphere seen as the public sphere and work, government, and politics

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What did Westward expansion mean for women?

A

1860’s

  • freedom
  • Escape from domestic life
  • women in the west had to work on the farm to produce enough food
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Civil War

A

1865

  • a first event that drew women into the workforce
  • however, all women returned to domestic life post-civil war and attitudes did not alter
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

American Woman’s Suffrage Association - AWSA

A

1869

  • Led by Lucy Stone
  • Thought the best way to get the vote was to focus on state rather than national campaigns
  • supported the 15th Amendment and feared it would not pass if women’s suffrage was included in it
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

National Women’s Suffrage Campaign

A

1869
- Led by Susan B Antony and Elizabeth Stanton
Beliefs - campaigned for a constitution amendment for women suffrage
- anrgy that AA men were getting the vote before women

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Role of Educating Women

A

1870

  • female high school graduates outnumbered male graduates
  • 11,000 female graduates
  • 1880 Literacy rates for women were better than those amongst men
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Comstock Law

A

1873

- banned the3 sending of obscene items in the male ie birth control

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Women’s Christian Temperance Union WCTU

A

1874

  • Led by Frances Willard
  • lobbied for local laws restricting alcohol
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Minor v Happerset

A

1875

- Ruled that women were US citizens

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Dawes Act

A

1887

- NA women in matriarchal tribes lost their position as the property owners

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Hull House

A

1889

  • Jane Adams
  • Halfway house for female immigrants
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Wyoming Women’s Suffrage

Which states and when did they follow suit

A

1890

  • first state to giev women the vote
  • 1893 - Colardo
  • 1896 - Utah
  • 1896 - Idaho
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

National American Woman Suffrage Association - NAWSA

A

1890

- merged AWSA and NWSA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

National Consumers League

A

1899

  • Frances Kelly
  • aim to secure better working conditions, higher pay and shorter working hours
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

National Association of Coloured Women

A

1896

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

NAWSA 1900 leader? and Policies?

A
  • Carrie Chapman Catt

Lobbying under Catt more succesful due to use of leaflets and lobbying of politicians, marches and meetings

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Women’s Trade Union League

A

1903

- aim: 8 hour working day and minimum wage

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Muller v Orgeon

A

1908

- Result, SC ruled it was constitutional to have maximum hour laws imposed on women

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Women in Washington

A

1913

  • Alice Paul led a deomstration of 5000 women
  • on the day of President Wilson’s inauguration
  • Successful as it fouced national attention on women
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

National Women Party

A

1914

  • Alice Paul
  • reolicated the methods of British suffragists
  • 7 month Pickett
  • Force feeding stories
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

First Birth Control Clinic

A

1916

  • Margret Sanger
  • 500 visits in 10 days
  • Brooklyn NY
  • Higlighted the demand for BC
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

WW1

A

1914

- 1 million women drawn into industry

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

New York v Sanger

A

1918

  • SC ruled tat doctors could prescribe birth control to be used for medical purposes
  • ie life threatening pregnancies
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

19th Amendment

A

1919 - approved by congress
1920 - Ratifed
- Wilson
- NA and AA women unable to vote due to Poll taxes and grandfather clauses

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

1920 Presidential election polling statistics

A

40% of women voted compared to 75% of men in Presedential election

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

when were women banned from working and in how many states

A

1920

- 26 staes banned owmen from working

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

How many women were in the House of Representatives in 1920?

A
  • 9 women out 435
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

American Birth Control League

A

1921
- established by sanger
co;;evcted eveidnece for negative birth control methods

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Legal Birth Control Clinic

A

1923

- with the ointent of only issuing contraceptives for medical purposes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Equal Rights Amendment proposed

A

1923

  • by Alice Paul
  • manu women opposed the ERA fearing that it would terminate laws that benefitted women
  • I - Catt, Jane Adams, Phyllis Schlafly opposed it
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

Atkins v Children’s Hospital

A

1923

- estabished a minimum wage for women in Washington DC

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Radice v New York

A

1924

- SC ruling, prohibiting the qworking of women i restraunts between 10 pm an 6am

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Flappers

A

1920s
- white middle calss
- Petting Parties
Synthesis - 90% of women lived below the poverty line and couldn’t afford to be Flappers
- older generations and religions sects disproved - Anti Flirt Club formed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

How many women worked in 1929

A

10.6 million women in work

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Bryn Mawr Summer School

A

1921

  • educated 100 low skill femae workers for 8 weeks each summer in liberal arts
  • ecouraged to seek leadership roles
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

National Federal Economy Act

A

1932

- prohibited a women from wokring in the civils service is her husband did

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

Who was the First woman in the US senate and when?

A

1932

- Hattie W Caraway

39
Q

The 21st Amendment

A

1933

- Repeal Prohibition

40
Q

How many women were looking for work during the depression

A

4 million women

41
Q

Indian Reorganization Act

A

1934

- Advanced NA womens CR

42
Q

Wagner Act

A

1935

- set a minimum wage

43
Q

Aid to Dependent Children

A

1935

- women with childeren unabloe to work

44
Q

Social Security Act

A

1935
- l
wefare benefits for famiies witout a working man

45
Q

Gallup Poll

A

1936

- 82% of people hated women workoing

46
Q

Us v One Package

A

1936

- SC ruled doctors could send contarceptives in the post

47
Q

When did DC set a minimum wage for women?

A

1918, the District of Columbia passed a law setting a minimum wage for women and children laborers

48
Q

Fair Labour Standards Act

A

1938

  • minimum wage
  • however female teachetrs still earned 20% less than male teachers in 1939
49
Q

Political progress under Roosevelt

A

1933 - Frances Perkins appointed secretary of Labour

- Mary Mclead Bethune became director of Negro affairs in the national youth administration

50
Q

National Recovery Administration

A
  • NRA focused on heavy industries

- therefore most women didn’t get aminumin wgae of 40 hour work week

51
Q

WW2 and Women’s Attitudes

A
  • 6 million women joined the workforce

- became 35% of the workforce in 1945 compared to only 25% IN 1940

52
Q

West Coast Hotel v Parrish

A

1937

- overturned womens minimum wage Washington DC

53
Q

GI Bill

A

1944

- helped WW1 veterans

54
Q

Women’s Bureau established

A

1944

- to adress the pay gap

55
Q

How many women were in the workforce in 1945

A
  • 13 million wome in work

- 75% wanted to stay

56
Q

Baby Boom

A

1946

  • 3.5 milllion abbies born record number
  • Benjmain Spock - common sense Book of bay and child care
57
Q

Female College Graduates in the 1950’s

A

90% married within a year

58
Q

Rosa Parks

A

1955

- inspires Montgommery bus boycott

59
Q

FDA approves the Pill

A

1960

60
Q

Equal Pay Act

A

1963

- Kennedy

61
Q

The Feminine Mystique

A

1963

- Betty Frienden

62
Q

Civil Rights Act

A

1964

  • LBJ
  • set up Equal Empoloyment Opportunity Commision
63
Q

Grisworld v Conneticut

A

1965

-SC ruled that married couples could use the pill

64
Q

National Organization for Women

A

1966

- Betty Freiden

65
Q

National Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws

A

1969

  • Betty Frieden
  • lobbied for the government to repeal abortion laws
66
Q

Womens Liberation

A

1968
- protested outside Miss World marching around the Freedom trashcan
- “Bra Burners”
1969 - organized an Aboritionspeakout in NYC

67
Q

No Fault Divorce Law

A

1969

- made it easier for women to get a divorce they no longer had to prove their husband had been unfaithful

68
Q

National Womens Political Caucus

A

1971

- recruited a trained women to becomere political candidates

69
Q

First edition of ‘Ms’ Magazine

A

1972

- Gloria Steinem

70
Q

Who and When was the First famele nominee

A

1972

  • Shirley Chisolm
71
Q

Stop ERA

A

1972

- Phyllis Schlafly

72
Q

Eisnstead v Baird

A

1972

- unmarried persons could buy the pill

73
Q

Equal Employement Opportunity Act

A

1972

- stated that men and women in the same job must be payed the same amount

74
Q

ERA in Congress

A

1972

- passed but was not ratified

75
Q

Roe v Wade

A

1973

- SC ruled that abortion laws violated individual privacy and thus were unconstitutional

76
Q

Equal Credit Opportunity

A

1974

- allowd women to have the opportunity to open a bank account

77
Q

Hyde Amendment

A

1976
- legislative provision abnning teh sue of federal funds for abortion unless it is to save life occurs from incest or rape

78
Q

Preganancy Dismcrimination Act

A

1978

- prohibits discrimination of women when employing for reasons including pregnancy childbirth and related appointments

79
Q

Gag Rule

A

1981

  • prohibits doctors mentioning abortion as an option
  • Reagan
  • until 1989
80
Q

Abortion Control Act

A

1982

  • Pennsyvania
  • imposed 24 hour waiting list on women wanting to have an abortion
  • Teenagers wanting an abortion, needed parents permission
81
Q

Final outcome for the ERA

A

1982

  • ERA not ratifed as a result of Schalfly’s campaigning
  • 35 out of a needed majority of 38 ratified
82
Q

Who was the first femae Vice President candidate?

A

1984

Geraldine Ferrero

83
Q

How much were Educated White Women earning in 1990?

A

98% of male pay

84
Q

Glass Ceiling Commission

A

1991

- established to strudy the barriers facing women and minorities from climbing te corporate heirachy

85
Q

Maternity Leave

A

1992

- Federal Government refused legislation on maternity leave

86
Q

Planned Parenthood v Casey

A

1992

- outlawed abortions terminating Viable foetuses

87
Q

Gag Rue repealed

A

1992

- Bill Clinton

88
Q

How many women voted in 1997?

A
  • 60 million women voted
89
Q

The Power of the Positive Woman

A

1977

  • Phylysis Schlaflys book
  • The power of the positive woman stated that a positive woman unersatnds that men and woman are different
  • her book demonstrated continuity form the early periods following the idea of separate spheres
90
Q

Raegan views on women

A

1980 Reagan applauded women for staying home, and being mothers and homemakers

91
Q

Coalition of Labour Union Women

A

1974

- a bridging organization that seeks to make connection between the feminist movement and trade unions

92
Q

Family and Medica Leave Act

A

1990

  • George Bush Vetoed it, as it would impose strains on businesses further dampening the economy
  • the bill that would require larger companies to grant at least 12 weeks of unpaid leave to any employee to deal with a birth or adoption, a parent’s or spouse’s sickness, or other family emergencies.
93
Q

Judges appointed to SC after Roe v Wade

A

1981 - Sandra Day O’connor - appointed as a justice in the supreme court
-Raegan

1991

  • Clarence Thomas -appointed to SC
  • George Bush

Both were against abortion - impact on women would be less favorable rulings if the topic of abortion was returned to the SC

94
Q

Who and when was the first black congresswoman?

A

1968 - Shirley Chisholm

Civil Rights (3 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions