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How did women become a greater political force in the 1800s?
In the 1800s women were finding more opportunities for education and employment. They sought to use their talents and skills to make life better for others and themselves. In the process women became a greater political force. -
Describe the changing opportunities for women in higher education.
Job opportunities for educated middle-class women expanded in the late 1800s. Women worked as teachers, nurses, typists, secretaries, and shop clerks. Buissnesses like newspaper and magezines began to hire more and more women as artists and jounalists. -
What were employment opportunities like for women in the 1800s?
It was not until 1833, for example, a college in Oberlin Ohio began admitting women as well as men in. In 1870 abo]ut 20% of college students were women in 1900 more than 1/3. Most of the women who attended college at this time were members of the middle or upper class they wanted to be able to use their knowledge and skills. Many professional oppriotunites were still denied them. -
How were the goals of the AWSA different from those of the NWSA?
The goal of this was to stop lynching and to get the better rights for women the AWAS goals were to get the right to vote. -
Describe how Susan B. Anthony tested the law beginning in 1872.
In 1872 she and three of her sisters staged a dramatic protest. They registered to vote, and on election day they voted in New York.Two weeks later they were unlawfully voting for a representative to the Congress of the United States. -
What did the Supreme Court rule in 1875?
- In 1875 The Supreme Court ruled that even though women were citizens, citizenship did not give them the right to vote. The Court decided it was up to the states to grant or withhold that right.Suffrage associations therefore continued their strategy of trying to persuade each state legislature to grant women the vote.
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Why was the National Association of Colored Women formed and who were some prominent members?
Many African American women discovered that they were not welcomed in most reform organizations. So they formed their women called NACW. The organization included some of the most prominent women in the African American community like Ida B. Wells and Harriet Tubman. -
What was the Eighteenth Amendment and what happened to it in 1933?
In 1917 congress proposed the 18th amendment that prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages but it proved so unpopular that it was repealed in 1933 -
What was the Prohibition movement and what did reformers believe in regards to it?
The Prohibition movent, which called for a ban on making and selling and distributing alcoholic beverages. The reformers believed alcohol drinks were responsible for crime, property, and violence against women and children.