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* Sojourner Truth | * Sojourner Truth | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld| early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld| early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li> | ||
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* Note that certain Christian ideology deeply influenced these movements, as well as abolition | * Note that certain Christian ideology deeply influenced these movements, as well as abolition | ||
* See also section above on Slavery | * See also section above on Slavery | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:cult of domesticity|a term used by historians to describe changes in the role and ideals of women in families in the 19th century; the "true woman" (historians' term, not from the period) was the center of the family: wife and mother dedicated to family, purity, religious piety, and submission to her husband; note that in this view at the time, women were not to speak publicly about politics much less agitate for the vote (see "separate sphere"; over the 19th century, middle class white women (not farmers) began to have fewer children (indicating advances in medicine and health care), which allowed them more personal time which could be spent on outside activities such as church, charities, clubs, etc.}}</ul></li> | <br> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:cult of domesticity| a term used by historians to describe changes in the role and ideals of women in families in the 19th century; the "true woman" (historians' term, not from the period) was the center of the family: wife and mother dedicated to family, purity, religious piety, and submission to her husband; note that in this view at the time, women were not to speak publicly about politics much less agitate for the vote (see "separate sphere"; over the 19th century, middle class white women (not farmers) began to have fewer children (indicating advances in medicine and health care), which allowed them more personal time which could be spent on outside activities such as church, charities, clubs, etc.}}</ul></li> | |||
* Declaration of Sentiments | * Declaration of Sentiments | ||
* Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Convention | * Philadelphia Women's Anti-Slavery Convention | ||
* Seneca Falls Convention | * Seneca Falls Convention | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:separate sphere|the idea that women were to confine their activities to the domestic and not public life, especially that they not engage in politics and public demonstrations}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:separate sphere| the idea that women were to confine their activities to the domestic and not public life, especially that they not engage in politics and public demonstrations}}</ul></li> | ||
* suffrage | * suffrage | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Temperance movement| anti-alcohol reform movement, which aimed to abolish use of alcohol or at least restrict its sale; "temperance" means moderation and self-restraint; the temperance movement was driven especially by certain religious denominations}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841|by Catharine Beecher, a book on the "domestic economy" and how women should run their households with efficiency and "domesticity"}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841|by Catharine Beecher, a book on the "domestic economy" and how women should run their households with efficiency and "domesticity"}}</ul></li> | ||
=== Women's rights advocates === | === Women's rights advocates === | ||
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton | * Elizabeth Cady Stanton | ||
=== Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening === | === Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening === |