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Amelia Bloomer

Amelia Bloomer. By: Nick Perkins And Cole Piccolo . Biography . Born in Homer New York May 27 th ,1818 Formally educated for 2 years In 1840 she married lawyer Dexter Bloomer. By his encouragement, Amelia began writing articles in support of prohibition and women’s rights.

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Amelia Bloomer

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  1. Amelia Bloomer By: Nick Perkins And Cole Piccolo

  2. Biography • Born in Homer New York May 27th,1818 • Formally educated for 2 years • In 1840 she married lawyer Dexter Bloomer. • By his encouragement, Amelia began writing articles in support of prohibition and women’s rights.

  3. Social Activism • In 1848,Bloomer attended the Woman’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls. • By 1849, Bloomer began publishing her views on temperance and social issues in her own publication called, The Lily. • The Newspaper mainly focused on temperance but it also ranged from recipes to moralist tracts, including topics such as marriage law reform and higher education for women.

  4. Social Activism (cont.) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a huge influence towards Bloomer. • Caused Bloomer to convert to a Women’s Rights activist. • Bloomer than began working on the issue of woman’s dress reform in The Lily.

  5. Woman’s Dress Reform • Bloomer wanted to do away with the long dress and corsets. • She thought women should wear shorter dresses with something that resembled baggie pants underneath. • The pants came to be known as “bloomers” and although they never caught on they were a revolutionary idea.

  6. Accomplishments • Bloomerism, a female costume. • Campaigned against sexual discrimination and advocating temperance and women's suffrage. • Responsible for publicizing women’s fashion years after the Seneca Falls Convention.

  7. Her Death • She died December 31st1894, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. • A very well respected woman throughout her life. • After her death, her husband Dexter Bloomer wrote a biography on his beloved wife.

  8. Bibliography • Kenyon, Martin. “Amelia Bloomer.” 24 May 2001. 25 March 2011 www.kenyon.edu/history/frontier/ameliabloomer.htm • Curley, Kathleen. “Women’s Civil Rights.” 13 June 2003. 25 March 2011. <www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/RHE309/vicfembioz.htm • Puhak, Janine. “Amelia Bloomer, For Women’s Rights” 17 January 1999. 26 March 2011. <www.biography.com/articles/Amelia Bloomer> • Brown, Kevin. “Spartacus Educational.” 02 February 2002. 26 March 2011. <www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWbloomer.htm> • Baxter, Susan. “Women's Rights National Historical Park.” 22 June 1998. 25 March 2011. <www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/amelia-bloomer.htm> • “Amelia Bloomer.” September 2006. 27 March 2011. <www.pocanticohills.org/womenenc/bloomer.htm>

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