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17-2: Women in Public Life

1. What types of jobs were women in each group likely to hold? Lower class: Agricultural jobs Domestic work (ex. maid) Manufacturing Middle and Upper Class: White collar jobs/clerical work African American: Agricultural jobs Domestic worker Immigrant: Agricultural jobs Piece work Manufacturing Taking in borders

2. How did Educational opportunities for middle- and – upper class women change? New women’s colleges were established 3. How did these new opportunities affect the lives of middle- and upper-class women? Offered opportunities to pursue a profession Opportunities to perform volunteer work or participate in reform movement Marriage was no longer a woman’s only alternative

4. What were three strategies adopted by the suffragists to win the vote? A. Tried to convince state legislators to grant women the right to vote B. Pursued court cases to test the 14 th Amendment (citizens have equal rights under the law) C. Campaigned for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the vote

5. What results did each strategy produce? A.Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho granted women the vote: Efforts in six other states failed B. The Supreme Court ruled that women were citizens, but that citizenship did not automatically confer the right to vote C. At first, the push for a constitutional amendment was killed by a senate committee; Eventually it reached the senate floor for a vote, but at this time it was always voted down.

Important Terms and People Maria Mitchell: The first woman to be admitted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a self-educated women who became a professor of Astronomy at Vassar College (NACW), National Association for Colored Women-Founded in 1896 to improve the living and working conditions for African-American women (NAWSA), National American Woman Suffrage Association-Founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote Susan B. Anthony: Leader of the woman suffrage movement who helped to define the movement’s goals, beliefs and actions.