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Anne Hutchinson
Exiled from Massachusetts Bay): Woman who challenged Puritan religious authorities in Massachusetts Bay. Puritan authorities banished her because she challenged religious doctrine, gender roles. clerical authority, and claimed to have had revelations from God. She was an outspoken and controversial figure in the religious development of Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Abigail Adams
When does writes to John Adams to “remember the ladies”. The wife of second president John Adams. She attempted to get rights for the "Ladies" from her husband who at the time was on the committee for designing the Declaration of Independence. First Second Lady of the United States, wrote to Adams to “remember the ladies. -
Republican Motherhood
(1790s) An idea linked to republicanism that elevated the role of women. It gave them the prestigious role as the special keepers of the nation's conscience Its roots were from the idea that a citizen should be to his country as a mother is to her child. Central idea: If the republic were to succeed, women must be schooled in virtue so they could teach their children. -
Dorothea Dix
A New England teacher and author who spoke against the inhumane treatment of insane prisoners. Dorothea Dix gathered information for her reports, reports that brought about changes in treatment, and also the concept that insanity was a disease of the mind, not a willfully perverse act by an individual. A reformer who worked hard to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. At the outbreak of the Civil War, she was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the United States. -
Declaration of Sentiments
Series of resolutions issued at the end of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the list of grievances called for economic and social equality for women, along with a demand for the right to vote. Written By Stanton. Based on US Declaration of Independence, "grand basis for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women." -
Lucretia Mott
elected President of the Seneca Falls convention): A Quaker activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848 -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal. Founded National Women's Loyal League’ -
Susan B Anthony
Founded National Women’s Loyal League. Susan B. Anthony was a lecturer for women's rights. She was a Quaker. Many conventions were held for the rights of women in the 1840s. Susan B. Anthony was a strong woman who believed that men and women were equal. She fought for her rights even though people objected. Her followers were called Suzy B's. -
American Equal Rights Association
Organized by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Lucretia Mott in 1866. It supported suffrage for both white women and blacks, but would not give in to accepting black men before white women. Tried to secure equal rights for all citizens regardless of race or sex. -
Lucy Stone
American woman suffragist, she was a well-known and accomplished antislavery speaker who supported the women's rights movement. She was the first woman to receive a college degree and the first to keep her maiden name. -
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Worked for legislation to moderate the use of intoxicating drink despite their inability to vote. Linked drinking to poverty, adultery, social crime and domestic violence. -
Jane Addams’ Hull House
Jane Addams was middle class woman. The Hull House is a settlement house that she installed in a ghetto of Chicago. The house inspired many other like settlements across the country, while Addams spent her lifetime battling for garbage removal, playgrounds, better street lighting, and police protection. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the national woman suffrage association and the american woman suffrage association. Organization established in 1890 to promote woman suffrage; stressed that women's special virtue made them indispensable to politics. -
Ida B. Wells
Founded the National Association of Colored Women.
The lynching of blacks outraged her, an African American journalist. in her newspaper, free speech, wells urged African Americans to protest the lynchings. she called for a boycott of segregated streetcars and white owned stores. she spoke out despite threats to her life. -
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a principal and a reporter, later becoming head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspired speaker and a brilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage. A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848 -
National Women’s Trade Union League
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions -
Muller v. Oregon
Louis D. Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of the harmful effects of factory labor on women's weaker bodies -
Florence Kelley
A lifelong battle for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers. Served as a general secretary of the National Consumers League. Led the women of Hull House into a successful lobby in 1893 for an Illinois anti sweatshop law that protected women workers and prohibited child labor. A leader in women's activism and social reform. Helped found NAACP. -
Alice Paul
The founder of the National Woman's party, she took a more militant approach to gaining the right to vote. She led women in mass pickets, parades, and hunger strikes to convince the govt of women's suffrage. -
National Woman’s Party
A militant feminist group led by Alice Paul that argued the Nineteenth Amendment was not adequate enough to protect women's rights. They believed they needed a more constitutional amendment that would clearly provide legal protection of their rights and prohibit sex-based discrimination. Founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men. -
Flapper Movement
(1920s) A young, carefree woman in the 1920s who wore her hair bobbed, wore makeup, dressed in flashy, skimpy clothes, and lived a life of independence and freedom. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior of flappers as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the flapper image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women -
Labor Feminism
(1920s-1970s) A movement in the United States that emerged after women gained the right to vote. Labor feminists advocated for protectionist legislation and special benefits for women. They helped pass state laws regulating working conditions for women, expanded women's participation in unions, and organized to oppose the Equal Rights Amendment. Fought for women's rights and equality in the work force. -
19th Amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. Vote should not be denied by account of sex -
Margaret Sanger
American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Proposed amendment to the U.S. constitution passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification in 1971. It outlawed discrimination based on gender. At first it was seen as a great victory by women's-rights groups. Fell 3 states short of the 38 required for ratification. However, many states have adopted similar amendments to their state constitutions. -
Women and the New Deal
(1933-1938) WPA employed 3.4 million men and women who had formerly been on the relief rolls of state and local governments. Roosevelt appointed to high administrative positions were the most diverse in U.S. history, with a record number of women -
Women Enter Work Force in WWII
(1941-1945) With young men off fighting in WW2, women entered the workforce to fill the holes they left. They worked industrial, engineering, and professional jobs. Promoted by the idea of Rosie the Riveter. Help out on the home front to provide for soldiers in battle. -
Rosie the Riveter
Symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war. Portrayed women as strong and capable. Attracted and empowered women to work and hold down the fight at the home front. -
Women’s Army Corps
Allowed women to volunteer for non-combat duties like nurses, cartography clerks, and secretaries to help with the war effort and push towards many women to help and work outside the home. -
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
Reported widespread discrimination against women and recommended remedies. Proposed to JFK by Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson; chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. -
Betty Friedan
Published The Feminine Mystique. A Feminist author of "The Feminine Mystique" in 1960. Her book sparked a new consciousness among suburban women and helped launch the second-wave feminist movement. Betty Friedan depicted how difficult a woman's life is because she doesn't think about herself, only her family. It said that middle-class society stifled women and didn't let them use their talents. Attacked the "cult of domesticity." -
Equal Pay Act
Made it illegal to pay women lower wages than men for the job solely because they are women. Prohibited discrimination based on gender in wages and benefits. United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, signed by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. -
Griswold v. Connecticut
The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected a right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7-2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy". -
National Organization for Women
Called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. also championed the legalization of abortion and passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. -
Women’s Liberation Movement
(1970s) Movement for women to break away from their traditional roles as caretaker and enter the professional fields. A series of political campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence -
Roe v. Wade
The court legalized abortion by ruling that state laws could not restrict it during the first three months of pregnancy. Based on 4th Amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons. -
Equal Credit Opportunity Act
Intended to promote the availability of credit to all creditworthy applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or the fact applicant receives public assistance or has exercised their rights under Consumer Credit Protection Act. -
Sandra Day O’Connor
The first woman to be in the Supreme Court. Appointed by Ronald Reagan, O'Connor was an Associate Justice from 1981 until 2006