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10 Cards in this Set
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Civil War
Reconstruction |
1861-1865
1865-1877 |
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Founder of Mount Holyoke
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Mary Lyon
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Women's Suffrage Movement
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mid 1870s-1920
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Women's Christian Temperance Unit
(WCTU) |
-Founded 1874
-Annie Wittenmeyer guided for 1st 5 years |
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NACW
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National Association of Colored Women (1896)
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Free Thought Movement
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-traditional religion=irrational & harmful to humanity (women in general)
-against slavery, advocated women's rights, & based on scientific/rational reasoning |
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Temperance Movement
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Bands of singing, praying women (meetings not only in church but on street corners), closed saloons (most re-opened) Founded the WCTU 1973/1874
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WCTU Slogan
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"For God, for home for native land"
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France Willard
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-Pres. WCTU for 20 years
-intrest in helping women & children -encourage Union to campaign for KDG, prison reform, child labor laws, laws that protect working women -Founded the WORLD's WCTU (to adress temperance and women's rights issues globally |
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Carrie Nation
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6ft tall.
March into saloons with an axe, smashing bars, liqour bottle, glassware, mirrors, whatever stood in her way |
