We The Women Flashcards Pt2

Book by Nora O'Donnell

Sarah and Angelina Grimké

• Daughters of wealthy plantation owners

• Were deeply disturbed by their family’s treatment of enslaved people

• Became Quakers and members of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society to openly criticize their family’s plantation, advocate against slavery, and support women’s rights

Charlotte Forten

• Raised by free Black American grandparents and relatives who were abolitionists and members of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

• Wrote journal entries and poems documenting her experience teaching freed slaves and witnessing the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation

• The first Black woman to publish in “The Atlantic Monthly”

The Declaration of Sentiments

• A document written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton that follows the structure of the Declaration of Independence

• Includes 16 points to explain how men have been tyrannically suppressing women

• Signed by 100+ men and women

The Seneca Falls Convention

• Inspires by the women of the Waterloo Tea Party

• A convention held to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women

• Paved the way for future conventions

• Included both men and women

The Waterloo Tea Party

• A group of Quaker women gathered together at Jane Hunt’s house in 1848 to discuss women’s rights

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott who both met at the World Anti- Slavery Convention, helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments

Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell

• The first and third women to earn medical degrees in the United States

• Elizabeth paved the way for er younger sister Emily while receiving ridicule from people i her college town

• Both sisters founded the first American hospital staffed by women

Mary Edwards Walker

• A surgeon and spy for the Union Army in the civil war

• The second women to graduate from medical school

• Received the Medal of Honor for serving wounded soldiers on the front lines and gathering information as a spy

• Never gave up her Medal after it was “removed” due to s change in Medal of Honor qualifications

Susan and Susette La Flesche

• Native American women who helped bring equality to the Omaha Tribe

• Susan raised the funds for the first Native American general hospital and is the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree

• Susette helped translate Chief Standing Bear’s case to return home and bury his son and win the case

Anna Dickinson

• Nicknamed “America’s Joan of Arc” because of her speeches

• The first women to give a political address to the U.S Congress

• Campaigned for the Republican party and against Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction post Civil War

• Influenced elections while advocating against slavery and for women’s suffrage

Belva Lockwood

• Ran for president twice

• The first women to practice law before the US Supreme Court, writing to the president to demand her Law school diploma

• The oldest practicing lawyer in the world who continued practicing in her eighties

• Paved the way for future lawyers