Period 8: Democracy and Women's Rights in America: The Fight Over the ERA by Amy Palo

What did the concept of "coverture" mean for women's property?

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What did Abigail Adams ask of her husband, future President John Adams? Did he respond?

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Describe how New Jersey differed from other new states.

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What role did women have in civic life during this time period?

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Where/how is our right to petition protected in this country?

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What did women advocate for regarding Temperance and the Cherokee Indians (what were they trying to accomplish)?

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Describe Lucretia Mott's role as an ABOLITIONIST.

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How did women advocate for Abolition? Give 3 specifics from the text.

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What language did Seneca Falls model its declaration on? Record the first line of the declaration.

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Explain "School Suffrage." Explain what the New York Earnings Act allowed.

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What did women hope for with the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments? What were women's rights activists upset about?

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What language did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others want added as a Constitutional Amendment?

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What did states do between the 1880s and 1910s to keep immigrants and formerly enslaved African Americans from voting?

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How did Alice Paul approach fighting for women's suffrage?

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Which President was pressured into suggesting a women's suffrage amendment? Which Congressperson introduced the amendment?

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What did the Expatriation Act do? What did the partial repeal allow?

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What were two things that John F. Kennedy did that angered the Feminist movement, and 2 things he did that they approved?

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What part of the Constitution did Civil Rights lawyer and activist Pauli Murray suggest using? What did she call the conditions that discriminated against both women and African Americans (hint: it's a play on words on a term you already know)?

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What was The Feminine Mystique, and what was its impact?

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How did the Feminism movement change in the late 1960s and 1970s?

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Give two examples of ways in which women were discriminated against in the early 20th century.

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T, one of which are in 1923 only 18 states allowed women to sit in juries

and also excluded by law and custom from many occupation

What language did Congress propose for an Equal Rights Amendment in 1923?

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What are two criticisms from opponents of the ERA?

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What did the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) establish? This made many people think the language of the ERA might not be necessary.

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When the Senate approved the ERA in 1950 and 53, what language was added?

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What was the progress of the ERA by December of 1972? What was the number 1 Billboard song?

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What did Ruth Bader Ginsburg argue in Reed vs. Reed. How did it challenge gender discrimination?

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What was Title IX? What is its impact?

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What did Congress do in October, 1978? What did South Dakota do in December of 1979? Why?

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Who was Phyllis Schlafly, and what was her position on the ERA?

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What were two specific criticisms Schlafly had about the ERA?

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What was the feminist position on Roe v. Wade? What was Schlafly's position?

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What did Reagan promise women in 1980? Did he deliver? Explain.

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What happened to the ERA in 1972 in Florida?

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What did Florida propose to do instead of ratify the ERA (in 1978)?

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How did the National Organization of Women (NOW) pressure Florida to ratify the ERA?

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2024-03-21 18:18:47 UTC

Kris

He made fewer female appointments than expected.

He backed the first equal law pay

Him getting elected angered many females

Also appointed a commission on the status of women, which brought together smart, achieving women working in gov or academia

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Kris

The equal protection law under the 14th amendment, that was an effective against state laws

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Kris

The Feminist Mystique was a published book that interviewed her former colleagues to develop that a woman's place was in the home

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Kris

It changed during the women's liberation and popularized the word "sexism" also changed it to more radical, than moderate