1. Tyler May & Meg Tirado

2. To keep children safe and there husbands rested upper and middle class women felt obligated to make their home a place of refuge. From the excitement and the distractions of the outside world However poor women had no other choice but to work hard either in the home or outside of it FARM WOMEN Perform such tasks as cooking, cleaning, and sewing, if there husbands were ill or absent they had to plow, plant the fields and harvest the crops DOMESTIC WORKERS Shortly after African Americans were freed from slavery poverty drove them into the work force In 1890 one million African American women held jobs. While 38% of them labored on farms 46% toiled as domestic servants African American women filled positions such as cooks, maids, laundresses, and scrub women Unmarried immigrant women often did domestic labor

3. In tobacco industries nearly 40% of the employees were women They also worked in canaries, book binderies, in packing plants, and commercial laundries As opportunities expanded women started to fill jobs in offices, stores, and classrooms. (these jobs required a high school education) By 1890 women high school graduates out number men's

4. Many of the women who became active in public live attended women colleges. Though Columbia, Brown, and Harvard colleges refused to admit women each of the universities established a separate college for them When women started to attend college marriage was no longer the only alternative Almost half of all college educated women in the late 19 th century were never married. Most educated women started to apply their skills to needed social reforms.

5. Women often strove to improve conditions at work and home, because they we not allowed to vote or hold office The NACW, National association of Colored Women, was founded in 1896. The Fight for the Vote Suffrage is the right to vote Prominent leaders of the suffrage crusade included Anthony, Elizabeth caddy Stanton, Lousy Stone, Julia Ward Howe During reconstruction the 14 th and 15 th amendment granted black men the right to vote. Some women approved of the amendments however some disproved because of the exclusion of women

6. A Three Part strategy for suffrage These suffrage leaders tried three different approaches to achieve there objective – First they convinced legislators to give women the right to vote – Second women challenged the 14 th amendment. – Thirdly women pursed for another amendment which in turn would give them the right to vote In 1876 the senate committee killed the Anthony amendment Women tried for the next 18 years to try and have it reintroduced Despite the three pronged approach the women suffrage achieved only modest success.