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41 Cards in this Set
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wrote the book--Vindication of the Rights of woman--- trying to change the status quo
First woman to speak out. |
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National Woman Suffrage Movement
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Elizabeth Cady Staton & Susan B. Anthony.
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American Woman suffrage Association
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Lucy Stone & Julia Ward Howe
right to vote on a state level |
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National American Woman suffrage Association
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Canie Chapman Catt & Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
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National woman's Party
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Alice Paul
--be more aggressive; get out there; protest at the white house |
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League of Women voters
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Education and improvement of the political process for women voters
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League of Women voters
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Education and improvement of the political process for women voters
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19th Amendment
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Guarantees women the right to vote in the state and federal elections
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Women's Chirstian temperance union
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Frances E. Willard
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Anti-saloon league
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Education about the problems of alcohol
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18th amendment
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Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquors.
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21st amendment
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Repeal of prohibition
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MADD
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Mother against drunk driving
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Club movement
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Middle & upper class women -> address social issues
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Young women's christian association
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Boston--- Parallel to the YMCA
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New England Women's club
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Julia Ward Howe
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General Federation of women's clubs
National association of colored women's club |
Mary Church Terrell
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Chicago Hull House
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Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr --> first of the houses....Woman's shelters ect.
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Jane Addams
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won a noble peace prize
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National consumer league
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founded by Josephine Shaw**
Florence Kelly Expanded it |
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Mary E. Lease
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Speaker for populism-- "Raise more hell and less corn"
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Frances Perkins
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First woman appointed to the cabinet by FDR-- secretary of labor
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Helen Douglas
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"The pink Lady" Democrat from Cali. Challenged Richard Nixon
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Oveta culp Hobby
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First secretary of the department of health, Education, and welfare
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Regan appointed as the first woman on the supreme court
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
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U.S. permanent representative to the United nations
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Victoria Caflin Woodhull
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First American Feminist
First woman candidate for president. |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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wrote the book: Women and Economics
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Margret Sanger
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American Birth control league
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Equal rights amendment
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Alice Paul
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Rachel Carson
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"Silent Spring" -- Major book in science, about the danger of insecticides.
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Betty Friedan
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writer of The Feminine mystique and founder of the national organization for women
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Betty Friedan
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writer of The Feminine mystique and founder of the national organization for women
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Equal rights amendment
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Failed in 1982
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Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs
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Tennis match Billie won!
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Roe v. Wade
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right to abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy.
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Sally K. Ride
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First American Astronaut
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Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas
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Question of sexual Harassment
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Cold War
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The political and economical struggle between the capitalist, democratic western powers, &the communist bloc after WWII
** Marked by: massice military buildups and intensive economic competition & strained, Hostile, diplomatic relations. |
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Sputnik
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1957-- First man-made satellite. "Sputnik" Russian for "Fellow traveler of Earth"
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Yalta Conference
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1. Four-power Occupation of Germany (France the fourth power)
2. A founding conference for teh UN to be held later that year 3. The soviet Union's agreement to enter the war against Japan after Germany's defeat, Receiving occupation areas in the east in return 4. A guarantee of representative government in Poland |
