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| Explain how women’s roles in rural area were different to those in cities. |
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| Women in rural areas did many of the same jobs as men. Women in cities took care of their homes and children or worked as teachers, factory workers, and housekeepers. |
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| Explain what happened to the women in rural and urban areas as new inventions were introduced |
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| In urban areas women worked outside of the home in department stores and ran tea rooms, or they had leisure time to shop and visit friends. Women in rural areas had more free time to visit with neighbors. |
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| List some the inequalities that affected women in the 1800s. |
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Colleges were closed to women; married women could not own property;
social and legal status was not equal to men; involvement in reforms such as alcohol abuse (temperance) and slavery were not allowed. |
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| Organized the Seneca Falls Convention to discuss women’s rights |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott |
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| people who work for the right to vote |
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| founded the American Woman Suffragist Association |
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| the first to award women the right to vote |
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| elected the first woman mayor in the United States |
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| voted illegally in 1872 and was arrested and fine $100 |
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| Law which legalized women’s right to vote |
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| a teacher who traveled, spoke, and wrote to promote women’s suffrage |
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| helped to strengthen the cause for women’s suffrage |
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| How did WWI help stenghthen the women's voting movement? |
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| the women had to fill in for the jobs men left behind |
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| List some jobs women did during this time |
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| repairing automobiles, driving buses, worked in factories to produce weapons, and joined the women’s branch of the U.S. Navy- secretaries, pilots, ambulance drivers, etc. |
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| List other jobs and opportunities that women had during this time. |
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| Professors, a career in politics, mountain climbing, exploring other lands, and acting as spies during World War I |
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