Women Civil Rights dates.

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1870
15th Amendment women had no vote still. Whereas men who were coloured etc could vote.
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1862
Homestead Act. Able to own land in their own right.
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1935 ( 2 events)
Social Security Act. Welfare benefits for the poor, helped families but not women directly. Secondly, Aid to Dependent Children-> designed for women with no male head of the household-> Frequently humiliating process.
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1938
Fair Labor Standards Act gave women new minimum wage levels -> still earned less than men.
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1920's
19th amendment- women could now vote. Women's Bureau also set up.
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1921-29
Shephard Towner Act. There had been funding for maternity and infant health education. Resisted by medical Profession.
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1873
Comstock Laws. The sale, advertisement and distribution of contraceptives was illegal.
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1933
21st Amendment, stops prohibition.
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1917
Prohibition. Alcohol is illegal. Women think that this would have a positive impact however it turns out worse as men were now making alcohol illegally at home.
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1964 (2 events)
Civil Rights Act -> no discrimination on the grounds of race or gender. Also Equal Pay Act -> stated that there should be no wage discrimination due to race or gender.
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1973
Roe VS Wade
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1992
Clinton, huge opportunities for women in politics.
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1972
Nixon vetoed Child Development Act
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1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act-> banned discrimination in access to credit due to race or gender. Women had to have their man's permission. More economic independence now.
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1889
Jane Addams opens up The Hull House- social centre for immigrant families.
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1973
Women's Crusade
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1874
Women's Christian temperance Union
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1893
Anti Saloon League. An organisation opposed to the sale of alcoholic beverages, it drew most of its support from church and temperance societies. Many business leaders believed their workers would be more productive if alcohol could be withheld.
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1929
Women's Organisation for National Prohibition Reform
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1918
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
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1899
National Consumers League (NCL). Its first general secretary was Florence Kelley. Under Kelley's direction, the League's early focus was to oppose the harsh, unregulated working conditions many Americans were forced to endure.
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1921
Women's Trade Union League. was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
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1896
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)-> Pushed for voting and anti-lynching.
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1869
American Women Suffrage Association
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1915
Alice Paul-> Congressional Union for Women's suffrage.
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1848
Women's Rights Convention. The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York.
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1920's
Flappers-> wore short dresses, wore no bras. Cut their hair short. Go against the things they saw as restrictive. They were also more sexually free.
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Equal Rights Act
Campaigned for Since 1920's but never passed Congress-> almost passed in 1972 but time ran out in 1982.
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1972
Schafly established National Committee to stop ERA (1972). She was a religious woman who carried traditional beliefs, she was opposed women being free from their husbands etc. She was anti- feminist and anti-abortion.
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1921
Margaret Sanger ran the American Birth Control league -> backed by Rockefeller.
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1969
National Organisation for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws.
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1963
Betty Friedan 'The Feminine Mystique'
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1966
National Organisation for women , used all forms of protest.
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1971
National Women's Political Caucus-> more women in politics through training and support.
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Gloria Steinem
Believed women could simultaneously have a family and a career.
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1929
The Great Depression, single women were effected the most-> those who were employed were paid very low wages but they did not have a choice.
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1947-1991
The Cold War. Increased opportunities-> all talents needed in space race etc -> needed to show that America was the land of the free.
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1960's
Second Wave of Feminism. Gave women new confidence-> some suspicions as many working women had no children-> belief that it went against tradition.
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Situation in 1992
jobs and careers- still faced discrimination, 'glass ceiling'. Obstacles remained-> married women had more obstacles. Importance of home and family increased compared to the 1960's. Barriers existed-> hard to get child care and paid maternity leave
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Situation in 1865
Division between race and class failed to unite women. Despite divisions-similar issues. No vote due to 15th amen. Christian attitudes dominate, most stay at home.
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Homestead Act. Able to own land in their own right.

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1862

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Social Security Act. Welfare benefits for the poor, helped families but not women directly. Secondly, Aid to Dependent Children-> designed for women with no male head of the household-> Frequently humiliating process.

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Card 4

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Fair Labor Standards Act gave women new minimum wage levels -> still earned less than men.

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Card 5

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19th amendment- women could now vote. Women's Bureau also set up.

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