Womens Rights Review Guide

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Seneca Falls Convention

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

  • Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

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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

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Lucretia Mott

  • Women’s rights activist and abolitionist

  • Helped organize Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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

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19th Amendment

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

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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

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Abortion Rights

  • Women in the United States have the right to:

    • have an abortion

    • end their pregnancy

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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

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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

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Margaret Sanger

  • Opened the first birth control clinic in 1916

  • Created a birth control pill in 1960

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Title IX

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

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The Feminine Mystique

  • Book written by Betty Friedan

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

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Betty Friedan

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

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Violence Against Women Act

  • Signed by Clinton in 1994

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

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Hillary Clinton

  • First female presidential nominee in 2016

  • Represented the democratic position

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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

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Rosie the Riveter

  • A female icon, typically represented on posters

  • Encouraged women to join the fight in WWII

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Republican Motherhood

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

  • Took place during the American Revolution

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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

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Factory Girls

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

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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

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Equal Rights Amendment

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

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Phyllis Schlafly

  • Anti feminist, conservative activist

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

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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

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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)

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Sandra Day O’Connor

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

  • Served from 1981-2006

  • Conservative

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Geraldine Ferraro

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

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Gibson Girl

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

  • Portrayed by the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson

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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

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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

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