Women's+History

Women's History

People: · Pocahontas daughter of chrif Powahatan and wife of Englishman John Rolfe, causing peace between the English and American Indians.

· Anne Hutchinson A dissenter who challenged the principles of Puritan society in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her ideas were seen as heresy and was called Antinomianism, which was the thought htat Christians were not tied down by moral law; thus faith anf the grace of God will get you to be an elect. She was banished for the colony and went to live in Pocasset.One of the strongest and intelligent women known in the Puritan society  · Phillis Wheatley a slave turned poet, Phillis was born about 1753. She never had a formal education and went to england and published a poetry book.  · Dorithea Dix- advocate for the mentally ill and insane in the mid 1800s. She founded about 32 hospitals, nursing schools, and schools for the mentally retatded. She also did prison reform  · Elizabeth cady Stanton an advocate for women's sufferage. Member of the women's rights movement in the 1840s and read the Declaration of Sentiments at Senica Falls Convention(1848)  · Lucretia Mott- a speaker advocating women's rights  · Emily Dickinson- american poet. She attended Mt Holyoke for a while and lived in solitude  · Mary Lyonfought for women's education. She founded mt. Holyoke College for women  · Louisa May alcott- author of the novel Little Women  · Harriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a controversial book about slavery based on the information she gathered from her abolitionist friends. The book was a major work of propanganda that alerted many northerners of the horrors of slavery.  · Sojourner Truth- a black speaker for emancipaton and women's rights  · Harriet Tubman- a black abolitionsit and ex slave who was one of the prominent leaders on the underground railraod. She helped over 300 slaves escape and was given the nickname "Moses"  · Elizabeth Blackwell- Feminist, first woman ot graduate form medical school, first American female doctor  · Clara Barton- sufferagest and creator of the Red Cross  · Sacajawea American Indian guide for Lewis adn Clark during thier expidition in Lousiana Territory aquired from Napoleon by Thomas Jefferson  Abigail Adams The wife of the second president of the United States, and tried to get rights for women from her husband, who was on th comittee for designing the Declatation of Independence.

Peggy Eaton wife of Sec. of War Eaton

Catherine Beecher Sister of Harriet Beecher-Stowe. She was unmarried and encouraged women to enter the professon of teaching. She ended up "feminizing" the job of teaching, and also pushed women to find work that enables them to support themselves.

Terms

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Matrilinear- passing down of traditions and and family lines through the female side of the family. Many American Indian groups, such as the Iroquois, developed this type of society.

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Republican Motherhood- assigned women the role of "keeping the nation's conscience", thus expanding opprutunities of education for women so good american values can be taught correctly

Woman's Rights Convention- Taking place in 1848, Seneca Falls, NY, this group of feminists outlined rights of women equal to men. Place where the Declaration of the rights and Sentiments of women (stating all men and women are created equal) was written

Cult of Domesticity- The glorification of the idea as women as "homemakers" in hte 1850s. Jobs for married women included decision maker of the home, giving them great power of the household. Teaching and other jobs for women also emerged.

National Woman's Sufferage Association- formed by E.C. Stanton and S.B. Anthony in 1869. It was to gain voting rights for women by amending the constitution

Troy Female Seminary was the first state supported school for women and was created in 1839