Women in Society

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Women in Society
-cult of domesticity husband, children, home,
church -could not vote in most
places -could not own property or keep wages
if husband lived
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Reformers
-Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke
sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth
Stanton Susan B. Anthony -Temperance move to
ban alcohol
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Womens Reforms
-Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke
sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth
Stanton Susan B. Anthony -Temperance move to
ban alcohol
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Womens Reforms
-Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke
sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth
Stanton Susan B. Anthony -Temperance move to
ban alcohol
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Womens Reforms
-Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke
sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth
Stanton Susan B. Anthony -Temperance move to
ban alcohol
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Womens Reforms
-Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke
sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth
Stanton Susan B. Anthony -Temperance move to
ban alcohol
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Womens Movement
-women saw increased opportunities in reform
movements -Seneca Falls Convention,
1848 Declaration of Sentiments
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Womens Movement
-women saw increased opportunities in reform
movements -Seneca Falls Convention,
1848 Declaration of Sentiments
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Reforms
-Womens Education Catherine Beecher Oberlin
College -Health Reform Elizabeth
Blackwell Amelia Bloomer
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Markets Expand
-by the mid 1800s people were no longer totally
self-sufficient produce one product, buy all
others -specialization -capitalism -standard
of living rose for almost everyone
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Transportation Changes
-Robert Fulton steam powered ships -many
canals were built after Erie was
completed -growth of railroads
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Transportation Changes
-Robert Fulton steam powered ships -many
canals were built after Erie was
completed -growth of railroads
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Inventions Improve Life
-Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber -I.M.
Singer sewing machines -Samuel
Morse telegraph Morse code
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Agriculture
-people began to move into the mid-western parts
of the nation -lots of available farm
lands -John Deere steel plows -Cyrus
McCormick mechanical reaper
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Changing Workplace
-development of industry -decline of skilled
labor -growth of urban areas -cost of goods
decreased and supply increased
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Factory System Begins
-Lowell textile mills -factory
system -company town for young girls -strict
control over the workers lives -factory
conditions would warn of future problems
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Working Conditions
-long hours -six days a week -poor ventilation
and lighting -unsafe working conditions -devel
opment of labor unions and strikes
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Immigration
-lots of immigration in the mid 1800s -mostly
Irish or German -most immigrants settled in
groups -low wages of immigrants caused problems
with other workers -Growth of Nativism -Know-Not
hing Party