Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WOMEN IN HISTORY
- DOROTHEA DIX
- 1802-1906
- Reform prisons/asylums - bed head Union
nurse.
- CLAIRA BARTON
- 1821-1912
- Front line war nurse
- STANTON & ANTHONY
- 1815-1902
- 1820-1906
- Formed nat woman's loyal league - slavery ban - petition 400k sigs for 13th
amend.
- MOTHER BICKERDYKE
- 1817-1901
- Front line war nurse
- SOJOURNER TRUTH
- 1797-1883
- Slave - abolitionist - feminist - stood up to men
publicly
- LUCY STONE
- 1818-1893
- Mrs. Stone - wife is independent radical being-helped women control
prop/$$/kids
- HARRIET TUBMAN
- 1822-1913
- Rescued 756 slaves - gov pension
$20/mon
- ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
- 1821-1910
- App 29 med schools, Dr
hygiene/sanitation
- ANNA DICKENSON
- 1842-1932
- Fame repub speaker - abolitiion
- AMELIA BLOOMER
- 1818-1894
- Pub 1st women's newspaper - dress reform -
"bloomers"
- MARIA MITCHELL
- 1818-1889
- Astronomer - disc comet @28 - 1st woman prof of Astro Vassar - started
women's organizations
- By 1860 some progress in women's rights - Civil War - women jobs -
govt/teach/farms/no men left - war relief (black and white) - nurses
- Southern women suffered more from Civil War than northern
women - southern women self sufficient but no feminism there
- Feminists believed suffrage would follow abolition - but not till
1920