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What Role did Women Play in the Reform Movements?

This article explores the role of women in the reform movements of U.S. history, including their efforts in the abolitionist, temperance, education, healthcare, and women's rights movements. It also discusses the impact of industrialization on American workplaces and the workers' movement.

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What Role did Women Play in the Reform Movements?

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  1. What Role did Women Play in the Reform Movements? U.S. History & Government 11th Grade Boys/Girls Br. Siraj January 2, 2020

  2. Women’s Condition before Reform • Cult of Domesticity Prevailed in America • Requirement of women to stay at home caring for the house because of restriction by social customs • 1/10 women only work outside home • They got only half of the salary men got • They could not vote or serve as jury • In some states wives had give their property to husbands U.S. History & Geography

  3. Reform Movements & Women Leaders • Anti-Slavery Movemnet • Sarah and Angelina Grimké worked for it • Temperance Movement – Banning Alcohol • Mary Vaughan and Others • Education Movement for Girls • Emma Willard opened school for girls in New York • Mary Lyon Started Mount Holyoke in MA. U.S. History & Geography

  4. Reform Movements & Women Leaders • Women’s Healthcare Improvement • Catherine Beecher made national Survey on Women’s Health • 1/3 of all women were sick in the U.S. • Reason so tight-fitting clothes made breathing difficult • Amelia Bloomer: designed loose fitting dress to solve the problem • Elizabeth Blackwell: 1st female graduate of medical college. Opened a hospital for women U.S. History & Geography

  5. Women’s Rights Movement • Elizabeth C. Stanton & Lucretia Mott • Were abolitionists • Organized Women’s right convention at Seneca Falls, NY – known as Seneca Falls Convention, attended by 300 women & men • Called for equal rights and right to suffrage • Sojourner Truth • Former slave & black woman activist • Famous speaker for abolition & Women’s Rights U.S. History & Geography

  6. Homework • Questions 1, 2, & 3 on page 258. U.S. History & Geography

  7. How did Reform Affect American Workplaces? United States History and Government 11h Grade Boys/Girls Thursday, January 2, 2020 U.S. History & Geography

  8. Industrialization & Work • Industrialization changed the way people used to work. • Textile industry created new ways of living. • People used to weave their clothes at home in cottage industries. • Patrick Jackson, Nathan Appleton and Francis C. Lowell started textile industry in Waltham and later at Lowell. U.S. History & Geography

  9. Industrialization and Work • Artisans used to work in Guilds • Master • Journeyman • Apprentice • New machines changed this system. • Unskilled workers now started to work in factories. U.S. History & Geography

  10. Factory Systems • Lowell Mills in MA • Hired young unmarried girls to work • Had to work from early hours of the day. • Lived in boarding houses with strict supervision. • Females were hired because they could be paid less than men. • Most girls worked only few years. U.S. History & Geography

  11. Factory Work • Mill Conditions: • Heat, darkness and poor ventilation created discomfort and illness. • Less workers were hired compared to the increased amount of work. U.S. History & Geography

  12. Factory Work • 1834 Lowell Girls went on a strike after 15% wage cut. • Church and press persuaded the girls to retuned to work. • Leaders were fired. • Another strike in 1836, but again the company prevailed • 1845 they began political activism in the form of “Lowell Female Labor Reform Association”. U.S. History & Geography

  13. Workers’ Movement • Workers started strike as a bargaining tool • Philadelphia coal workers’ strike for 10-hour work-day • Few other strikes but companies’ won mostly. • They used immigrant strikebreakers. • Waves of immigrants came from Europe during 1830-1860 • Immigrants were disliked. • National Trades’ Union was formed in 1834. • Court’s started to support worker’s right after Commonwealth v Hunt verdict. U.S. History & Geography

  14. Homework • Questions 1, 2 & 3 on page 265 U.S. History & Geography

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