Anthony birthplace). Catharine E. Beecher‚ an educate reformer‚ opposed women’s suffrage since she believed women could improve their status through homemaking and teaching. Through A Treatise on Domestic Economy‚ Beecher clearly showed women could have attained respect and equality with men by maintaining in the “domestic sphere.” Therefore‚ Beecher thought women’s role in the domestic sphere was more essential for maintenance of the American republic (Beecher 197). Her influence spread into society
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The Temperance Movement sought to end the increasingly common issue of excessive drinking. Due to the social customs of the time‚ alcoholism consumed many individuals‚ mainly men. Drinking was “a basic part of men’s working lives”. (Faragher‚ p.438) Toasts were routine at work and at social gatherings alike for men. Women‚ who abstained from public drinking‚ and children were left to bear the consequent burdens. Economic affairs were controlled by men‚ making it easy for a family’s savings could
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and more women had the courage to impact the nation in their own way. Although domesticity and republican motherhood were the only roles of women in America‚ some women‚ like Marry Wollstonecraft‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Catherine Beecher‚ Dorothea Dix‚ and Sarah Grimke‚ became public speakers‚ writers‚ abolitionists‚ and some other influential role players during the early and mid-19th century. Women like Marry Wollstonecraft stood out because they refused to follow the typical American woman path
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American history is primarily told through the dominant male perspective because women held as minority voices within this society. With that said‚ a lot of the readings relayed new perspectives within history’s timeline because women voices were the focus. Beginning with the first colonial women writers and ending with women in the post-war era‚ there has been a display of untold history relayed through these female writers and artist. Anne Bradstreet’s poems displayed the level of education that
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vote. Frederick Douglass‚ who was in attendance at the convention and helped pass the resolutions in the Declaration of Sentiments called the document the “grand basis for attaining the civil‚ social‚ political‚ and religious rights of women”. The Grimke sisters‚ Harriet Tubman‚ and Sojourner Truth were also suffragists. The Women’s Rights Movement expanded democratic ideals because it pushed for equality and the right to vote for
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Chapter 1‚ "Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and Human Progress" covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas‚ the genocide and slavery committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus‚ and the violent colonization by early settlers. Topics include the Arawaks‚ Bartolomé de las Casas‚ the Aztecs‚ Hernando Cortes‚ Pizarro‚ Powhatan‚ the Pequot‚ the Narragansett‚ Metacom‚ King Philip’s War‚ and the Iroquois. Chapter 2‚ "Drawing the Color Line" addresses early slavery of African
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Some of the main women rights advocates are Sarah Bagley‚ Elizabeth Stanton‚ Catherine Beecher‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Margaret Fuller and William Lloyd Garrison. Sarah Bagley was a woman that was known for her strike on how many hours men/women were working in the Mills and the way that women were getting treated for the hard work they would accomplish
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Seminary in Ohio c. Weld and his “Lane Rebels” went out across the northwest preaching abolitionism and the Gospel d. 1839- Weld wrote “American Slavery As It Is” this widely circulated pamphlet inspired many‚ including Harriet Beecher Stowe J. Radical Abolitionism 1. “The Liberator” 1831 an abolitionist newspaper printed in Boston written by William Lloyd
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Mann. Mann pioneered compulsory education funded by public taxes‚ with uniformity in curriculum and teacher training. This new public education created the first real career for woman and the expansion of their training was advocated by Catherine Beecher.
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laws or roadblocks. Personal attacks were often made not against the character of a leader‚ more so the ideology held by an individual. This is true when Catherine Beecher challenged Angelina Grimkee’s position of speaking in public in front of males. Beecher believed a woman’s influence should be in the private sphere‚ while Grimke challenged socially accepted practices by speaking in front of mixed
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