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Chapter 9 Section 2
Women in Public Life
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Susette La Flesche accomplish? | She fought for Native American rights and eventually helped pass the Dawes Act of 1887 which made Native Americans citizens |
| How did life change for women on farms? | It barely did, they still cooked and cleaned and sewed but now they also raised livestock and plowed |
| 1 in 5 women had jobs by 1900, they made half as much as men however. Where did women work? | Classrooms, offices, garment trade, manufacturing, stores. |
| In 1870 roughly 70 percent of women held what job? | Domestic worker, or a servant. they would cook clean and take care of other people's homes |
| What was the first college made especially for women? | Vassar Women's College |
| What was a huge change women made in the late 19th century? | They no longer had to get married. Nearly half of college women never got married. |
| This African American women's club ran nurseries, reading rooms and kindergartens. | NACW, National Association of Colored Women |
| Who founded the National Women's Suffrage Association? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
| What was the three-part strategy for gaining women's suffrage? | Convince Legislatures. Pursue Court Cases. Push for a National Constitutional Amendment to allow women to vote |
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