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Mrs. Anne Forrest
Was the first woman to arrive in America from the settlement of Jamestown in 1607. She brought over her fourteen year old maid who was named Anne Burrsa who arrived in 1608. She was a married woman to John Laydon and they had their ceremony in Jamestown in 1609. In that same year as she got married, she had a child who was named Virginia Laydon who was the first child born in Jamestown since their journey. This was the first start of American history and women's rights in America. -
Pocahontas
She was a Native American in America who was the daughter of Powhatan a chief. She saved the life of John Smith who was killed by her father. She traveled with Captains Lewis and Clark to show in all over America where he documented the region and people living in it, and they traveled all the way to the Pacific Ocean where they interacted with other NAtive tribes and Pocahontas translated their speech. She married John Rolfe in 1614 by chaplain Richard Buck unsure but probably in Jamestown. -
Puritans
The puritan group came to America to create a pure religion, included the restriction of women's rights. They believed that the women were supposed to stay home and take care of their children and let the men rule. This was a known opinion that many people agreed with and stuck for many years. The women took on roles such as farmhand and tending to their gardens and were responsible for guiding the next generation. The men of the group were known to be elected roles in society and ministers. -
Anne Hutchinson
Puritan believer who was a member of the Antinomian Controversy which changed many minds of members who were with the Puritan community. She was a Puritan spiritual advisor who preached at her house with other women and started to question the teachings of the Puritan faith. Her popular opinion and charm helped her get many follower to see her side of her religious views, and because of her questioning she was banished from the Puritan community. She left and created a religious free society. -
Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Mrs. Bradstreet is known as one of the most prominent English poets in North America. She was a Puritan and part of England’s Northern Colonies where she became the first writer. She is known was a Puritan figure in American literature and known for her poetry as well as personal writings. She was the first American woman known and famous for her writings which contributed to the start of woman respect and women's education in her time that she first was in America. -
Elizabeth Key
She was one of the first African American woman to fight for her freedom and win because she was a slave in America. She won her freedom and the freedom for her son, John Grinstead, who was an infant at the time. She lived in the colony in Virginia where she sued based on the fact that her father was a free Englishman and that she was a baptized Christian living in America. Based on her argument, with the help of her attorney, William Grinstead, and husband she successfully got her freedom. -
Quakers
The Quakers treated men and women as equals which was very different for the gender roles of this time. They promoted female equality and most interestingly women were some of the most important figures in their history. The women had the power in the denomination than any other women's Christian group. They were also known as being on of the first religious groups to let women to hold leadership positions in their church. The women traveled to spread the Quakers brief and were educated. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of trial held by a religious town that was accusing older women and men of witchcraft. The young girls were caught dancing in the forest which was against their very strict roles for women and then the girls stated that they were being controlled by witchcraft to not get in trouble. The whole thing blew up and created a huge mass killings of innocent people. The trial wouldn't have happened if the girls did not have such strict rules to follow and thus resulted in the distrust of women. -
Lucy Terry “Bar Fights”
Mrs. Terry is famously known as the earliest author in America who was an African American. She was sold into slavery when she was an infant brought over to Rhode Island as a slave from Africa and became a free women in Massachusetts in 1756. Jer future husband purchased her freedom before they get married in 1756. She composed a well known poem called “Bar Fights” which was about an incident in 1746. At first her poem was preserved orally to people in America, but became published in 1855. -
Lydia Chapin Taft
Mrs. Taft was the first known woman in America to legally vote. She voted in a town meeting in the New England town of Uxbridge in the Massachusetts Colony. She was born in Mendon, Worchester County, Massachusetts. And was the daughter of Seth Chapin and Bethia Thurston who was a respected member of their community. She grew up with nine siblings, but her mother had fourteen children and her father owned property. This was the first step of Women's Rights in America. -
Fifteenth Amendment
This amendment granted African American to have the right to vote which many women's movements were unhappy about because it did not include the right for women to vote too. This affected the women's rights movement because some organizations spilt for the deduction of the amendment. Part of the women's groups thought that any movement for the minority's was victory for their cause, but the other group was mad that African American were getting the right to vote and women were not. -
Republican Motherhood
This group was the known gender role of their time and illiterates that mothers should stay home and take care of their children. The women in this group consisted of responsible women who were supposed to uphold a strict morality for their children and husband and to pass on the ideals of republicanism. The group passed the idea of domestic women's roles in society to stay at home and let the men take care of the public and government. It also encouraged traditional learning roles for women. -
Dolly Madison
Was wife of James Madison who became president in 1809-1817 was an advocate for getting more of women's opinions and participant in the government. Women at this time were known as being subordinate to men, but Dolly Madison helped her husband make decisions because she had a good sense of what the county needed. She always looked out for women and set an example for classy and respected women's opinions that men should take in consideration, and started a movement for rights. -
Seneca Falls
This was the first organized women’s convention by women in the United States that discussed the movement of women's rights. The convention happened in New York where sixty eight women and thirty two men came to discuss and debate the crisis of lack of women's rights for two days. At the convention the Declaration of Sentiments was signed which outlined the grievances and outlined their movements for their cause. This was the first physical action taken by women to get their rights. -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Was an early women's rights activists that organized and presented at the Seneca Falls Convention. She is most known for organizing and illustrating early women's rights movements in the 1800’s and became president of the Nationals Women's Suffrage Association from 1892-1900. Mrs. Stanton was opposed to just male African Americans getting the right to vote when black and white females did not have the right to. She also became president of two other women's organizations. -
First Women’s Rights Convention
This convention for women’s rights took place in Worcester Massachusetts. The convention took place for to days and had more than one thousand delegates for over eleven states in the United States filled Brinley Hall to where the convention was being overflowed. At this meeting the women decided to start movements on working to get their right to vote, to own property, and get a higher education. The women wanted to create more and better opportunities than the women were getting in their time. -
Susan B. Anthony
Was a women’s rights activists who was known for her actions in the women's rights movements. Mrs. Anthony spent her life traveling and giving lectures for women should get better rights and treatment. She dedicated her life to women's suffrage movements and co-founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society where they worked in New York to start their rallies and protests for equal women's rights. Her actions were very inspirational to many women to start fighting for their rights. -
American Equal Rights Association
Their goal as on organization was to get all equal rights for all citizens in American no matter their race or religion. This group was influential and had members from all races including latinos, blacks, whites, and all women. This group was known for two major campaigns in 1867 where the first took place in New York where they fought for its state constitution and in Kansas where they campaigned referenda that would enfranchise African American and women's rights. -
American Women's Suffrage Association
This organization was the result of the split of the American Equal Rights Association over the differentiating opinion for the fifteenth amendment. The founders, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, organization supported the fifteenth amendment. The organization joined the NWSA to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This organization was considered to be the more conservative group in the split of these two women's associations. -
National Women’s Association
This group was created in New York where is was a response of the split of the American Equal Rights Association because their were different opinions of if the addition of the fifteenth amendment was a good outcome for the women's rights movement. The leaders of the association were opposed to the fifteenth amendment because it did not mention women for the equal right to vote. The goal of this group was to get a federal constitutional amendment for their equal right to vote in America. -
Women's First Suffrage Law
First state law to help end women's suffrage was in Wyoming where they passed the first law ever in all the states of America. One year after passing this law women were allowed to begin serving on juries in their territories and in their state. This was a big win for American women rights activists because this was the start of legal action that heard their protests and followed it with legal action to help the cause. Many women took the opportunity to serve on the jury in the Wyoming state. -
Victoria Claflin Martin
Mrs. Martin was a well known American leader for the american women’s suffrage movement. She was the first woman ever to run for president in the United States of America. She was younger than thirty five when she ran for president which is why some historians question if it was even legal for her to run for president in her time; however, it seems from the newspapers in 1872 age was not a big issue when running for president. The presidential inauguration was in March of 1873. -
Merge to make NAWSA
The merge of the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association so become part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association or else known as NAWSA. The joint of these two organizations created one big organization to promote the addition of Women's rights to the constitution and i to the American society. The group went from state to state trying to protest for the banning of stopping American women from voting and their voting rights. -
Colorado
State was the first state in America to adopt the amendment granting women's right to vote in their state Soon after the adoption of this amendment other states in America such as Utah and Idaho took in the Amendment also. This was a huge victory for women's rights activists because they finally got the governments and state governments to see that their cause was needed and important enough to make it a law for women all across america to be able to vote. Many states followed after Colorado. -
Daughters of the Confederacy
This was a united women's group that where it was founded in Nashville, Tennessee by its leader Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett who also co founded the Raines of Georgia. This group was popular throughout the South where the women would work in hospitals, sewing societies, and worked in knitting circles in the civil war to help the south. The organization kept going after the war and changed their action to focus on more being involved with cemeteries, memorial, and confederate homes. -
The National Association of Colored Women
The creation of the National Association of Colored Women was formed to protest the rights of colored women who were not being treated as equal as white women or black men at this time. The first called for meeting for their cause was orchestrated by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin to take place in Boston, Massachusetts which then followed the creation of the National Association of Colored Women's clubs around America and merged many colored groups to come as one. -
WTUL
The National Women's Trade Union League was created as a United States organization that paired with both working class and higher class women formed to support the efforts of women to organize labor union and to get rid of sweatshop conditions for working women all across America. This organization played an important role in supporting massive women's strikes all across America in campaigning for women's rights. Was known for supporting the Uprising of the 20,000 and the NY sweatshop strike. -
Muller v. Oregon
A landmark case that was decided by the State's Supreme Court that was issued to justify the sex discrimination and labor laws of women. The case was held in the state of Oregon which decided to restrict women's rights for their working hours and the state's interest for protecting women's health who create the next generation of Americans. The case was decided three years later in which in New York the weekly working hours of bakers was invalidated. Women won shorter working hours for women. -
Congressional Union
Was a Woman Suffrage American organization that was led by Alicia Paul and Lucy Burns that campaigned for a constitutional amendment that guaranteed women's suffrage. The union was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffrage movement in Europe that worked for women's rights all around the world. Their continuous campaigning took attention of the United States government and congressmen that forced the addition of the nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to vote. -
Lucy Burns
Was a well known feminist and equal rights activist in the United States. She was a close friend and worked closely with Alice Paul which they ended up creating the National Woman's Party. In this party she planned radical new plans for 1916 where she organized the first women political party and delegates women to gather and organize women voters to fight for their equal voting rights to white males and African American males. She persuaded women to take direct action for their rights. -
Margaret Sanger
Was an activist for women's right in America to use birth control. She was also a sex educator, writer, and a nurse who popularized the term birth control and eventually opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. She also organized the creation of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She used her writings to promote her way of thinking to the public of America. Her most known books were the “Family Limitation” which she was prosecuted under the Comstock Act under. -
Jeannette Rankin
Mrs. Rankin was an American politician and a women’s rights activist who was the first women in history to hold national office in America. She was elected into the House of Representatives by the state of Montana in 1916 and in 1940. She congressional terms worked with the initiation of the United States military intervention in both of the World Wars. She was a lifelong pacifist who was part of the fifty members of the House of Representatives who opposed the War Declaration of 1917. -
National Women's Party
This was an American women's organization that was a growth from the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. This party broke from the National American Woman Suffrage Association which focused on getting women's rights from a state level, but the National Woman's Party worked on getting their rights by getting a constitution amendment that ensured women's suffrage all throughout American. This group was controversial during the war time and were later arrested for obstructing traffic. -
Nineteenth Amendment
This addition to the Constitution was a huge victory for the women's rights advocates because it gave women the right to vote in all states in America. The right to vote was a huge win because women's groups for many years were waiting to get this right that white males and black males had already gotten. The rule also prohibited states from stopped women from being able to vote when it came time to vote for federal government members. This stopped the discrimination of voting for sexs. -
Alice Paul
Was a suffragette and women's rights activists who was on of the main leaders of the 1910s campaigning strategies for the nineteenth amendment. She strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and Silent Sentinels which were very successful campaigns in the 1920’s. She became a leader of the National Woman’s Party which fought for an equal rights amendment to be added to the constitution for equality of women in the United States. Her influence brought attending to the cause. -
Women's bureau of Department of Labor
This group was established by the Department of Labor by public law. This group has been groundbreaking in many different ways by field through investigations in the readjustment period after World War I and investigated many women's employment in various states in the United States which became their main focus as an organization. This group had the power to formulate standards and policies of welfare and wage earnings of american women and worked to improve their working. -
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mrs. Bethune was an American Educator and civil rights activist who is best known for starting a private school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She got many money donations to develop the academic school as a college. She was also appointed as a national advisor and be part of the first known Black Cabinet while under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was known as “The First Lady of the Struggle.” She organises the National Council of Negro Women. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Is also known as the ERA which was a first proposed addition to the constitution for women to have all equal rights as men in the United States. under law but was still not yet part of the United States Constitution. This was an amendment that was wanted to be created so that women could legally have all equal rights to a white man who already had all equal rights. The women wanted a legal law that made them equal to men at their time and revive all the same opportunities as them. -
National Council of Negro Women
Was founded by Mary McLeod Bethune who worked as an organization of organization to represent national concerns for the African American groups in America. This organization fought for their opportunities for jobs, the right to vote, and anti-lynching legislation. This group gave women a way to realize their goals were possible for social justice and equal civil rights. The leader of this organization was Dr. Dorothy Irene Height for decades who was an enlightened leader. -
Television
The creation of television many shows were created that emphasized the gender roles that women needed to play. The television shows such as “I Love Lucy” and “Our Miss Brooks” were known for showing the women in the as staying at home and taking care of the children, cooking dinner, and always being fully dressed full makeup before their husband wakes up for breakfast. This show caused a huge change of women's roles to be a mother and wife to their husband and letting the husband make the money. -
Food and Drug Administration
This administration was responsible for regulating the safety of food and drug products that were being distributed in America which was created by Roosevelt in 1906. This association approved the use of birth control in America which was created by Gregory Goodwin Pincus and was support by Margaret Sanger and women’s activists who believed the choice of their body was the woman’s choice and not the government's. This was a win for women's right to choose in America. -
Commission on the Status of Women
The commission first met at Lake Success in New York where all fifteen representation in the commission were women. This group was established by President John Kennedy and he appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as the chairwoman of the commission. The group issued documents in 1963 which substantial discrimination against women in the workplace. They made specific recommendations for improvement and fairer hiring practices and paid maternity leave. -
Betty Friedan
Mrs. Friedan was a famous American writer and feminist who became a leading figure in the women's rights movements in the United States. She is most known for being the author of “The Feminine Mystique” which created a huge second wave of feminism in the twentieth century. She was also the first president of the National Organization of Women. She aimed to bring women's rights in the mainstream of American society and open America's eyes to the idea of full equal partnership. -
Feminine Mystique
Was a famous feminist book written by Betty Friedan. She conducted a survey and found out that many household wife's and women were not satisfied with their lives. This became the whole prompt of her popular book. The book included interviews from housewifes in suburban households and their feelings and dreams to become more. The piece of work was originally supposed to be an article but no magazine would take her piece because they didn't believe in her opinion then it was developed into a book -
Civil Rights Act
The Title VII bans the discrimination of women in the workplace and in employment based on sex and race. It established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate complaints and impose penalties if the act is broken. This act was a landmark for civil rights advocates in the United States because it made discrimination illegal based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This made it a law that all women had the same civil rights and opportunities as white males. -
National Organization of Women
This organization was formed to call for equal employment opportunities and pay as a white male in their time. They also campaigned for the legalization of abortion so that women could have rights over the decisions that happen with their own bodies and a passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution. This organization caught many eyes in the government to see that the women's equal rights organizations were serious about their cause to become equal as the white male. -
Executive Order 11375
This order came from President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 13th, 1967 which banned discrimination while hiring in the workplace all across America. The told that one on hiring could base their opinions on whether to hire or not hire someone based on their sex in the United States Federal Workforce and on government contracts. This was a win for women activists because they would now be treated equal and get all equal opportunities as men while applying for a job in America. -
California
First state in America to adopt the “no fault” divorce rule in the United States which allowed couple do get divorced by mutual consent. Back in early life America women were usually the ones to blame or be accused of and blamed for causing a divorce in a marriage and would get nothing in return in the couple was divorced. The action of this states led a domino effect across the states of America and by 1985 every state had a similar law passed in their state & equal division of common property. -
Ms. Magazine
Magazine was started forty years ago by a feminist group led by, Gloria Steinem, who made a big decision in her time to started a magazine that was dedicated to women. Their first issue sold out within the first eight days of being published and this magazine is arguably an oral history of publication that changed American history. The women at first had a hard time getting credit for their work because it was not a man’s signature. Was known as an American liberal feminist magazine in America. -
Education Amendments
This with the Title of IX banned sex discrimination in school in all states across America. This sai that no American should be denied an education based on their sex or race. This helped the enrollment of women athletic programs in school and in professional schools to increase drastically all across America. This made it a legal law in the United States that no person will be excluded in participation for a school or educational program or activity that recived Federal financial assistance. -
Roe v. Wade
Court case that concluded the decision to make abortion legal or illegal. The 14 amendment extended the decision of women getting abortions to the state's interests and regulations. The women argued that their decision to choice was more important than the state's decision to chose which side they agree with. This case argued that it was a crime of women's civil rights to violate an abortion with due process. This created a national debate to women's rights and their rights over their own body. -
Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
This court case was because of Pennsylvania's state labor laws which prohibited from employing women for night shifts.This company hired exclusively men for their night shift jobs at its plant. This was in violation of the Exclusive Order 11375 and the Civil Rights Act in America. The plant was also giving higher wages to their men workers that worked the night shift instead of the day shifts. This created a difference in wages between women and men which violated the Equal Pay Act. -
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
This became a federal law for America that owners of a businesses could not fire a pregnant working woman because it would be a discrimination of sex on the basis of pregnancy. The act that prohibits discrimination in firing includes the discrimination of a pregnancy, childbirth, or other related medical conditions such as this. This was a win for women's rights activists because it gave women the right to be able to have a child and not be worrying if they were going to lose their jobs. -
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
A worker of the Meritor Savings Bank sued the bank and her supervisor claiming that she had been sexually harassed by the supervisor which was a violation of the Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The woman was seeking justice and damages for the assault that the supervisor did to her. The Court found the supervisor guilty of the assault on the predicate that the harassment involved the conditioning of employment benefits on sexual favors in a workplace in America. -
The Violence Against Women Act
This act became a federal law which was signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13th, 1994. The act provided over a million dollars to investigate and prosecute crimes against women who were victims of violent crimes. The act imposed a n automatic and mandatory restitution on the people convicted of their violent crimes against women. This allowed civil redress in cases all across America that prosecutors chose to un-prosecute people that performed violent acts and got away with it. -
United States v. Virginia
This was a landmark court case in the United States because it struck down the Virginia Militaries administration policy to not let women into the military. This case let American women who wanted the equal right as men to fight for their country. This was violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which gave women all equal opportunities as men in the United States yet they were still banned from entering the military unlike black and white American males could all over the country.