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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