1. Women

3. What were the gender roles/norms for women in the 1800s?
Brainstorm:
What were the gender roles/norms for women in the 1800s?

4. Women’s Politics Suffrage – the right to vote
Women did not gain the right to vote nationally until the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1921.

5. Seneca Falls Convention
July 19-20, 1848
the first women’s rights convention
Notable attendees include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

6. Declaration of Sentiments
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...”

7. What early American document does this resemble?

8. The Declaration of Independence

9. Very controversial; the Oneida Star called it “the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded in the history of womanity.”

10. Abolitionists people who were against slavery
Grimké Sisters -daughters of Southern slave owners; broke away from their family to become anti-slavery Quakers and speakers, as well as advocates for Women’s Suffrage

11. Temperance Movement
Temperance -– moderation in or abstinence from alcohol
Prohibition - laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
Carrie Nation and Hatchetation
Write a one sentence summary of Carrie Nation’s activities.

12. Why did Americans accept women as reformers?

13. Settlement Houses
Organizations that were established in poor urban communities that provided English lessons, job training, connections, health care, and child care

14. Jane Addams – Hull House – Chicago based “Mother of Social Work”
Won a Nobel Peace Prize
Writer and activist; against child labor

15. Lillian Wald Henry Street House – NYC based
Hired nurses from the immigrant communities that spoke the language of the patients
Hired African American nurses at equal pay
Allowed the National Negro Convention to meet in her Settlement house
National Negro Convention would later become known as the NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Allowed her protégé Margaret Sanger to distribute birth control

16. Excerpt from “Private Motives and Public Outcomes”
Who do you think wrote this? When do you think it was written?
What is the purpose of settlement work?
Do you think it has value? Explain
Where did it start?
What are Alexander and Bair’s arguments?
What is the role of settlement houses in an immigrant’s life?