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=​ WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY BETWEEN 1789-1900=

Time Line

 * 1789-1807 :Women were able to vote in New Jersey
 * 1804 :Sacagawea begins serving as a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition
 * 1813 :Mary Pickersgill is commissioned to produce two large flags for Fort McHenry. The larger flag is the Star-Spangled Banner
 * 1832 :Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society is founded
 * 1833 :Prudence Crandall opens a teacher-training school for young African-American women in Canterberury, Conneticut. Local opposition forced the school to close in 1834
 * 1834 :Februrary, Lowell, MA mill strike. 800 women signed a petittion and turned out in response to a wage reduction
 * 1830s:thousands of women were involved in the movement to abolish slavery
 * 1841 : Dorothea Dix begins her crusade for the humane treatment of the mentally ill
 * 1849 :Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive the M.D. egree
 * 1850 :Harriet Tubman makes her first trip to the South as a conuctor on the Underground RR
 * 1840-1850's:Large amount of Irish and German immigrant women in need of work entered domestic service and textile mills
 * 1845 : May, Sarah Bagley (President of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association) spoke at the first meeting of New England Workingman's Association in Boston
 * 1848 :One of the largest women's events in history the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights
 * 1861-865:Many women fought bravely for their country under desguise in the civil war
 * 1863:Stanton and Anthony organized women in support of the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery
 * 1866 :June 18, African-American domestic workers went on strike when petition for higher wages was ignored
 * 1867 :Stanton and Anthony accepted the help of pro-slavery Democrat, George Train
 * 1869 :Stanton and Anthony used Train's money to start a women's rights newspaper called //The Revolution//
 * 1869 :December 10 Wyoming territory passed the first women's suffrage law. following year women begame to serve on juries
 * 1869 :Stanton and Anthony founded their own women's rights party, the National Woman Suffrage Association
 * 1874 :The Woman's Christian Temperance Union was founded, and soon became the larges and most powerful women's organization in the country
 * ​1875 : //Minor vs. Happersett,//
 * 1877 :July 31 Household servants and laundresses in Galveston, Texas went on strike for higher wages some women lost their jobs
 * 1879 :Frances Willard is elected presiden of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
 * 1881 :Atlanta, Georgia (laundresses formed an Atlanta Washing Society in July) went on strike and went door to door to gain support wanted higher wages and dominance of city's washing industry.
 * 1881 :Alice Fletcher begins a six week camping trip on the Sioux Reservation in Dakota Territory
 * 1881 :Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
 * 1885 :Sharpshooter Annie Oakley begins touring with "Buffalo Bill" in Cody's Wild West Show
 * 1890 :National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
 * 1891 :Lili'uokalani becomes queen of Hawaii
 * 1896 :Women had won the right to vote in four states- Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Colorado
 * 1896 :African American Women clubs merge to form the National Association fo Colored Women

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 * GLOSSARY **

Female Moral Reform- One of the earliest and most effective anti-prostitution groups

Catharine Beecher- A memeber of one of America's leading families or religious reformers, advocated teaching as a suitable employment for young single women

Woman's Sphere/ Seperate Spheres- A tem used to proclaim the home as the midd-class woman's natural enviroment

Women's Rights Conventions- Women gathered to hold to ask for political,legal, and social equality

"Age of Common Man"- Women played a vital role in all the social movements

Women Soldiers- Women would dress up as men in order to join the army

Army Nurses- Due to the pressure of the Civil War and under the objection of most army doctors, women became army nurses

Women's Suffrage Movement- Women sought the right to vote

(AWSA) American Woman Suffrage Association- Had close ties with the Republican Party and worked for the15th amendment and actively sought the support of men

Fifteenth Amendment- Gave the right to vote to all men, but not women

(NWSA) National Woman Suffrage Association- More radical wing than the AWSA, which also sought to gain women's rights/ voting

Cowgirl- Worked with men on the trail and were usually second generation of ranch workers

Prostitutes/ Tenderloins- Most were unmarried young women who worked in cattle towns. they were womenwho were often unhappy with their underpaid jobs in dressmaking and domestic service and found work as prostitutes

Brothel Districts/ Hoghouses- Places where prositiutes would congregate where they applied their trade

Wage Workers- the new system required a vast number of people and many young men and women took paying jobs in the new industrial factories

Young Women's Christian Association- A group the provided the temporary residence mainly to native born white self supporting men and women

Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Woman suffrage leader who helped to build the labor and agrarian protest movements while campaigning for their own rights as citizens

Women in the Kinights of Labor- endorsed the order's political planks while having their own set of demands

Woman's Christian temperance Union (WCTU)- at the timewas the world largest organization of women in the world and encourages absolute absitnence, worked to reform prisons, eradicate prostitution, and eliminate the wage system and all offices should be jointly shares with men and women

Farmer's Wife- The national women's alliance's newspaper that spelled out the basic principles of epigrams

FUN! FUN! FUN! Women's Word Jumble ** 1. She wrote Little Women CATTOL __2. She tried to vote illegally__ __NOTYHA___ __3. She established the Red Cross___TARBON_ 4. She ran the underground RR _NATMBU_ 5. She was a well known Suffrage Leader _TANSTON 6. She helped reform treatment of the Ment. ill _XDI__
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