WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

Alice Paul
1. Silent Sentinels
  1. group of women under Alice Paul who picketed at the white house in 1917 , wear sash of their college, making a statement they're educated and deserve full and equal rights
2. 19th Amendment passed in 1920 guaranteeing women the right to vote
3. NWP
  1. head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
  2. Harry Burn -republican who was the youngest member of the TN general assembly , after receiving a letter from his mother he voted in favor of the 19th amendment which passed it in 1920
  3. Woodrow Wilson was president during the time, announced his support for suffragist in 1918
  4. Women suffrage parade of 1913, organized by Paul was when women marched from the capital to the white house
4. Hunger strike
  1. While imprisoned Alice Paul refused to eat so she was force fed by a tube inserted in her nostrils
5. Equal Rights Amendment
  1. She didn't live to see the success, but after getting the 19th amendment she worked on obtaining equal. rights for men and women
Susan B. Anthony/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1. Suffrage
  1. In 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested & fined for voting, because it was illegal at the time for women to vote
  2. Wyoming, first state to women unrestricted suffrage in 1869.
2. Feminist
  1. advocated for equality of men and women, including the right to vote
  2. In 1851, Stanton and Anthony join forces forming a lifetime friendship as women's rights activist
  3. 1869 National Woman Suffrrage Assosication is formed by Stanton and Anthony
  4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton published the Women's Bible in 1895 challenging the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man
  5. in 1848 Stanton and Anthony helped to get the Married Woman's Property Act of New York passed , giving women property, court, and children rights
3. First women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY 1848
  1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes the Declaration of Sentiments outlying women's equality rights
  2. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
4. National Woman Suffrage Association
  1. 1890 ~ Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
5. Abolitionist
  1. Susan B. Anthony publishes the Revolution in 1868, attacking inequality of American citizens, and racial prejudice
  2. former slave Sojourner Truth advocated for woman suffrage, giving her famous speech "Ain't I a woman" in 1851
Cult of Domesticity (Between 1820 & the Civil War)
1. Women's' Role "The way a women should be"
  1. The ideal women should cultivate the virtues of Piety, Purity, Domesticity, and Submissiveness
  2. Men go to work to make money and support the family , while women take care of the household
2. PIous
  1. The religious one of the household
  2. "godless, no woman, mother tho she be" A woman's proper sphere was in the home
3. Pure
  1. the worst thing a woman could do is have sex outside of marriage
  2. had to protect her virginity
  3. couldn't have sex for any other reason other than to make babies
4. Domestic
  1. Women's place was in the home,, they must always keep the house clean
  2. The role of child bearers
5. Submissive
  1. Submit to men/husband
  2. not smart, but loving
6. Middle class -families
7. The private sphere and public sphere separated

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