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Gencoe Ch 14- Sec. 3
The Women's Movement
Question | Answer |
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Suffrage | thr right to vote |
Coeducation | The teaching of boys and girls together |
Many women abolitionist also | worked for women's rights. |
Lucretia Mott | gave lectures to call for teperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition. |
Seneca Falls, July 1848 | Place and time of first women's rights convention. |
Women at Seneca Fallas called for | an end to all laws that discriminated against women. |
Some women thought | that voting for women was too radical. |
Seneca Falls paved the way for | women's rights. |
Susan B. Anthony | worked for women's rights and temperance. |
Education for women and equal pay were also important to | Susan B. Anthony. |
Wyoming, in 1890, | was the first state that allowed women to vote. |
Math and science were considered | subjects only suitable for mens, by some. |
The Milwaulkee College for Women | taught courses to help women be healthful, inntelligent, wives, mothers, and housekeepers. |
Troy Female Seminary taught subjects to women, that were usually taught to men, | such as math, history, physics, and geography. |
A few states allowed women to | own property after they married in the 1800s. |
Indiana was the first state to allow a women to get a divorce if their husbands were | alcoholics. |
Elizabeth Blackwell was turned down by 20 colleges, but was finally | allowed to attend Geneva College and graduated as a doctor and at the first of her class. |
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