Theme 2 quiz

What was the Cult of True Womanhood?

the idea that the only true woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family.

How did the women of the western frontier advance women's rights?

Gave women freedom of life

How did Abigail Adams challenge her husband?

In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation's women when fighting for America's independence from Great Britain.

What did the concept of "legally dead" mean for women?

Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law ... Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university would ...

What did the Declaration of Sentiments seek?

The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Based on the American Declaration of Independence, the Sentiments demanded equality with men before the law, in education and employment.

Suffrage movement

The drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920. The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when a women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls meeting was not the first in support of women's rights, but suffragists later viewed it as the meeting that launched the suffrage movement.

Gibson Girl

The idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by a magazine image that showed that woman could make it big and did have buying power, created by Charles Dana Gibson.

Flappers

carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior of flappers as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the flapper image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom.

What four characteristics did true women possess?

piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness