Womens Rights Review Guide

Seneca Falls Convention

• First organized event for the promotion of women’s suffrage

• Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Wanted abolition and women's suffrage

• Organized Seneca Falls Convention

• Urged Congress to include women in the 14th and 15th Amendment

• Founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony

Lucretia Mott

• Women’s rights activist and abolitionist

• Helped organize Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Declaration of Sentiments

• Signed at the Seneca Falls Convention by many men and women including Fredrick Douglass

• Sparked years of activism for Women’s Rights

19th Amendment

• States that a citizen’s right to vote should not be infringed upon based on sex.

Roe V. Wade

• Supreme court case in which the court ruled that the United States would protect the right to have an abortion

• Overturned in June of 2022

Abortion Rights

• Women in the United States have the right to:

  • have an abortion

  • end their pregnancy

Flappers

• Women, generally from the 1920s, who found themselves going against typical stereotypes

• They wore fitted clothing, showing their ankles

• They went to speakeasies and engaged in drinking and smoking, contradictory to previous temperance protests

Equal Pay Act

• Signed by John F. Kennedy in 1963

• Ensured that men and women working in the same job at the same workplace would not have wage related discrimination

Margaret Sanger

• Opened the first birth control clinic in 1916

• Created a birth control pill in 1960

Title IX

• Provided equal amounts of extracurriculars, sports, and equal educational opportunities for men and women

The Feminine Mystique

• Book written by Betty Friedan

• Made many women question the purpose of their lives and had them wanting more

Betty Friedan

• Wrote The Feminine Mystique, creating a second wave of feminism

Violence Against Women Act

• Signed by Clinton in 1994

• Helped women facing domestic violence, rape, sexual assaults, stalking, and other gender-related violence

Hillary Clinton

• First female presidential nominee in 2016

• Represented the democratic position

Kamala Harris

• Came into office as the first woman and woman of color to be vice president of the United States

• Came into office in 2021

Rosie the Riveter

• A female icon, typically represented on posters

• Encouraged women to join the fight in WWII

Republican Motherhood

• Women were told to help future generations learn how they should behave

• Took place during the American Revolution

Cult of Domesticity

• Nineteenth-century culture that suggested that women should be in the home reinforcing republican motherhood

• It gave women authority in the home but limited their opportunities in the real world

Factory Girls

• Coined term for a young woman who worked in a factory, a shop, or an office

Susan B. Anthony

• A nineteenth century advocate for temperance and women’s rights

• Established the abolitionist Women’s Loyal League during the Civil War

• Founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 for women’s suffrage

Equal Rights Amendment

• Made to end the distinctions between men and women when it came to divorce, property, and employment

Phyllis Schlafly

• Anti feminist, conservative activist

• Her STOP ERA movement resulted in the ERA being passed but not ratified by many states

Muller V. Oregon

• A supreme court case decision where women were allowed by the state to have less working hours than men

• 10 hour work day limitation for women

Florence Kelley

• Advocate for women and labor rights

• Was dedicated to improving working conditions for women and children

• Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Sandra Day O’Connor

• First woman who served as a U.S Supreme Court justice

• Served from 1981-2006

• Conservative

Geraldine Ferraro

• First woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party

Gibson Girl

• Feminine ideal of physical attractiveness during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

• Portrayed by the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson

18th Amendment

• Enforced prohibition of alcohol

• Doesn't ban the drinking of alcohol, just the selling

• One of the 3 goals of women, (abolition of slavery, temperance, and suffrage)

• Repealed by the 21st amendment

Jeanette Rankin

• American politician and women’s rights advocate

• First woman to hold federal office in the US

• Was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana