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| A term introduced into the United States around 1910 to augment the demands for voting rights and economic equality with a psychological dimension akin to "self-realization." |
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| To think and move freely; Independant. |
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| Living with the wife's family |
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| Tracing inheritance and decent through the female line |
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| Autonomous ruler or chief of state |
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| Spiritual leader often with the power to heal |
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| Society in which the father is the head of the family and the rest of the society is based on heirarchy. |
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| Legal status of a woman upon the marriage under common law, in which her legal identity is merged with that of her husband |
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| Status of a married woman under common law, in which her legal identity is merged with that of her husband |
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| Status of a single woman under common law in which her legal identity is independent of a man |
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| The idea that a man should earn sufficient wages to provide the sole support of his family |
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| a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs |
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| A wage that is high enough to maintain a normal standard of living. |
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| Unpaid, invisible work. (housework) |
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| Paid work or labor in America |
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| Cycle of poverty; women are usually at the bottom. |
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| People who would come with carts to look for young women to work in the factories. |
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| Person of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage |
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| Position assumed by a woman who took on the responsibilities of her husband while he was gone |
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| Series of religious revivals that swept the colonies in the middle of the eighteenth century. |
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| People converted to evangelical religious beliefs in the Great Awakening. |
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| People who supported the status quo in churches and opposed the religious changes promoted by New Lights. |
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| Regular reception, usually held in the home of a wealthy woman, where social, intellectual, and political leaders mixed. |
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| Idea that men and women have different characteristics that complement one another. |
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| Intellectual movement stressing human reason and the ability to achieve progress by applying reason to problems of science and society. |
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| Women who organized to support the Parriot cause |
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| women's roles present in the emerging United States; civic duty |
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| Act passed by both houses of Congress in 1830 allowing the president to negotiate treaties that would exchange Indian lands east of the Mississippi River for new territory west of the Mississippi. |
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| Westward journey of sixteen thousand Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838. |
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| Relationship in which a white man legally agreed to support a libre woman as part of an ongoing sexual relationship. |
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| Legal agreement to marry that was used as a substitute for marriage in the early days of settlement in Texas. |
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Female Indian captives held as slaves in New Mexico
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| Form of industrialization in which the owner of raw materials distributes the materials to workers who are paid by the piece to assemble them in their homes |
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| Term for the situation in which all members of a family must earn wages and share them in order for the family to survive. |
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| Ideology suggesting that women's work within the home was crucial to society, particularly because of its moral rather than economic value |
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| The idea that tmena and women operate in different worlds: women in the private world of the home and men in the public world or business and politics |
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| Factory families, independent mill girls, putting out system, prostitution, dairying, laundress, domestic service, housework. |
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| System for organizing slave labor that delegates to an individual slave entire responsibility for production of a crop, such as rice, on a prticular plot of land |
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| System for organizing slave labor that groups slaves together to work on successive tasks |
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| Gang of slaves composed of pregnant and older women as well as children, delegated to do lighter field tasks such as weeding and collecting trash. |
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| Stereotype of southern female slave who identified with the interests of her white charges and exercised great authority in their lives. |
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| Marriage of slaves who live on two different plantations. |
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| White southern stereotype of young slave women who was thought to seek out sexual relationships with white men. |
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| Process of a slave absenting himself or herself from a plantation for days or months as a form of protest. |
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| Wealthy young southern women of marriageable age presented to society in a series of balls. |
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| Series of religious revivals throughout the United States that spanned the first half of the nineteenth century |
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| Form of marriage promoted in the Oneida community in which everyman and every woman in the community were considered married to one another. |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| Statement prodeced at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 listing injustices faced by women and rights they deserved. |
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Woman's Central Relief Association
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| Served as the foundation for the United States Sanitary Commission. |
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| Extravaganzas organized mainly by women to raise funds for the Union troops during the Civil War. |
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| Ladies Industrial Aid Association of Union Hall |
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| Organized to provide aid to soldiers and their families in the Boston area only. |
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| Working Women's Protective Union |
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| Organized in New York to assist wage-earning women during the Civil War |
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| Hospital Act of September 1862 |
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| Legislation by the Confederacy that allowed women to serve as nurses in hospitals. |
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| Phrase used to describe the subordination of woman's rights to the campaign to advance the political rights of African American men |
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National Women's Sufferage Association
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| Formed in 1869 in New York City and led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to advance a strategy to introduce a federal amendment to grant women the right to vote. |
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American Woman Sufferage Association
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| Formed in 1869 in Cleveland and led by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell to work for woman sufferage at all levels. |
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| The 1873 law that forbade the use of the U.S. Postal Service to mail "obscene" materials, which included contraceptive information and devices. |
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| The furor created by the revelation of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's affair with Elizabeth Tilton, one of his parishoners. |
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| U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1784 that allowed states to restrict the right to vote to male citizens |
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| Susan B. Anthony amendment |
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| Introduced in January 1886, the amendment specifies that the right to vote shall not be "denied or abridged" on account of sex. |
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Association for the Advancement of Women
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| Formed in October 1873 to promote the formation of women's clubs and to showcase women's sccomplishments. |
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| A federation of trade assemblies formed in 1866 that supported woman's right to labor. |
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| Daughter's of St. Crispin |
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| Formed in 1869 as the woman's branch of the all-male Knights of St. Crispin, which supported the principle of equal pay for equal work. |
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| The grassroots component of the temperance campaign that erupted in 1873-1874 that brought thougsands of women into activism. |
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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| Founded in November 1874 to curtail the use of alcohol and became the largest organization of women in the nineteenth century. |
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| The slogan promoted by WCTU president Frances E. Willard to secure the organization's endorsement of woman suffrage. |
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