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1. How many women were working in 1900?: 949,000
2. What was the 15th amendment?: 1870 gave blacks the vote but not women
3. What's the 1873 comstock laws?: Makes the sale or advertisement of contra-
ception illegal.
4. What's the 19th amendment?: 1920- gave women the vote
5. How many women were in congress in 1969?: 11
6. What was set in 1938?: Fair labour standards act set minimum wage levels for
women which was lower than men.
7. What was set in 1963?: Equal pay act, women paid the same as men for the
same jib
8. What happend in 1965?: Griswold v connecitut supreme course case rules that
the use of contraception was legal, overturns comstock law
9. What happend in 1973?: Roe v Wade legalised abortion
10. What was the AWSA?: American women's suffrage association formed by
Lucy Stone, moderate group campaigning for female suffrage.
11. What was the NWSA?: National women's suffrage association more assertive
group campaigning for female suffrage, more aggressive
12. What was the CUWS?: Congressional union for women's suffrage organised
mass demonstrations, picketed the White House on a daily basis. Alice oaul
13. Was the campaign for the vote for women a mass movement?: No mainly
middle class, by 1905 only 17,00 members of AMSA
14. What issues were women mainly campaigning for?: •housing, education,
employment discrimination
•most women prioritised the home over political issues
15. Despite women getting the vote in 1920, did they use it?: Many women
didn't use their vote and didn't engage in politics as it was a mans issue
16. What did WW1 provide women?: •more jobs for unmarried
•the availability of cheap mass produced labour saving devices
•
17. Did WW1 provide women with long lasting opportunities?: Despite it pro-
viding women with increased opportunities they were only temporary, many women
after the war went back to work at home
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18. What was the 1930s new deal?: •Roosevelt introduced a string of new
policies to stimulate the economy and support those who were unable to help
themselves.
19. Examples of the new deal?: The 1938 fair labour standards acts
20. What was prohibition and when was it passed?: The ban of the sake of
alcohol, 18th amendment in 1917
21. What did the campaign for prohibition reveal about women?: •women
were a face to be reckoned with in brining about change when organised.
•politics remained a mans world however probilhiayion was a protection of the
home
22. Did WW2 change women's lives?: •women replace men in workplace during
war
•1945 75% of women wanted to remind in paid employment
•limited provisions for childcare
>african american women had a very different experience to white women
23. What was the Molly Pitcher Club?: Set up in 1922 r organise a female protest
movement against the introduction of prohibition
24. What was the Wonpr?: Founded in 1929 and also campaigned for the removal
of pronhigbition
25. What did probhibitin lead to?: Increased crime rate as the illegal importation
of alcohol continued
26. What was the 21st Amendment and when?: end of prohibition - 1933
27. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?: prohibits racial discrimination in
voting, meaning all women could now voge
28. Which activists groups merged in 1890?: •AWSA and NWSA
29. WW2 didn't change women's lives:: • women Mainly worked in low paid jobs
• during 1950s girls still expected to find a husband
30. What problems remained in the 1960s:: • women still dependant on make
politicians for whatever changes to be made
• many men still dominated professions
31. What profess was made in 1960s?: •advertised jobs were no longer gender
biased
•single women abs married women could now obtain credit to own their own home
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