March 23-27

Monday- Continued Testing. Will have part three test tomorrow.

Tuesday- Finished Testing.

Wednesday- Sexism and Feminism

Assigned Blog #1 50 Points

Choose any woman/event/law in history that has greatly impacted women in the US or around the world.

Research and write a blog entry on the impact that the woman/event/law has had on women.

Give a good effort, include two pictures, and be sure add your sources.

Due Next Wednesday.

Topics need to be chosen by Friday. First come first serve.

**Include two pictures and sources.

Thursday- During the time of the Revolutionary War (late 1700's) it was believed that a woman's brain was smaller in capacity to men's.

Early 19th Century Women (1800's)

1. Unable to vote.

2. Legal status of a minor.

3. Single- could own her own property.

4. Married- no control over her property or her children.

5. Could not initiate divorce.

6. Couldn't make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband's permission.

Cult of DomesticityThe ideal of womanhood had four characteristics:

1. Piety

2. Purity

3. Domesticity

4. Submissiveness

The Push for Equality

1848 Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society, including the right to vote.

Women in the mid-late 1800's and early 1900's pushed for four things:

1. Abolition of slavery (13th Amendment-1865)

2. Temperance (18th Amendment- 1920)

3. Women's suffrage (19th Amendment- 1920)

4. Child Labor Laws

Friday-

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