The Americans 9.2

National Association of Colored Women

(NACW) two organizations merged, moral education of AA race (Josephine Ruffin)

3 part suffrage strategy

1. convince state legislatures to grant women right to vote (suceeded in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho) 2. pursued court cases to test 14th amendment, women are citizens 3. national constitutional amendment that gave women right to vote

2000 how many women had jobs

1/5 (25% were in manufacturing)

What colleges refused women, what did they do instead

Columbia, Brown, Harvard, produced separate colleges

National Women Suffrage Association

Founded by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton which morphed with another group to be NAtional American Woman Suffrage Association

Name 3 Women colleges

Vassar, Smith, Wellesley

women typically held ____ jobs

least skilled (assumed to be supporting themselves)

what industries fought against women suffrage

liquor, textile

Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe

prominent suffrage leaders

70% of working women in 1870 were

servants

14th amendment

states denying male citizens right to vote would lose congressional represntation (women are citizens)

which women did domestic labor

unskilled/ schooled, AA, unmarried imigrants