APUSH Women Timeline

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  • Jamestown

    The colony of Jamestown was founded in 1607. However, the original settlers were all men and no women. It was another year before women were sent over.
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    Republican Motherhood

    Republican Motherhood was the idea that marriage is not a patriarchy. The role of the woman was to raise Republican kids.
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    Cult of Domesticity

    The Cult of Domesticity is the idea​ of a resurgence of feminity and "true women". "True Women" had piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. This was an idea during the 1800's.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    The Seneca Falls Convention was a rally for women's rights in 1848.
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    The Gilded Age and Women in the Workforce

    The Gilded Age created more urban life, which opened up working opportunities for women.
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    The Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era was when the women's rights movement really began to take shape.
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    World War 1

    During World War One, women took the jobs that the men left to go fight in the war. New jobs came from the war effort. Women played a vital role in the war effort and materials and supplies.

  • Women's Suffrage

    Women gained the right to vote in 1920.

  • Maud Wood Park

    She was the President of the League of Women Voters.

  • Alice Paul

    The head of the National Woman's Party, she advocated for an agenda that would create an Equal Rights Amendment.
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    World War Two

    Similar to World War 1, women filled the roles that the men left behind when they went to fight.
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    Counter Culture

    A large part of Counter Culture was the women's rights movement. Women, African Americans, and hippies all advocated during the 60's and 70's for their rights and wants.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination​ of people based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • Title 9

    "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

  • The Equal Rights Amendment

    The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed to congress to ban discrimination based on sex.
    NOTE: It never got passed.