Not Watching Iron Jawed Angels
Directions
• I am assuming the majority of students watched
Iron Jawed Angels in 9th or 10th grade. This
reading is a summary of that film as written in the
book America’s Women by Gail Collins.
• Task: The names of significant people, laws and
other items are circled. For example, line 4-5
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are
circled. How does the reading provide a brief
summary for the circled item?
So Far in this Class
1700-1800
1600-1700
Colonial America
Revolutionary
War and new
Ideas
1800s
1900s
Slavery
Challenged
Women get
Right to Vote
Anti-Slavery Convention June 1840
Seneca Falls 1848 (Stanton and Anthony)
1860s Civil War (African Slavery Ends)
NWSA and AWSA Created 1869
The Split
AWSA
NWSA
Stanton and Anthony
Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia
Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips
Scenario
The Civil War is over and the African is now
free. There is pushing for an Equal Rights
Amendment in Congress. As a woman, would
you support an amendment advocating for
equal rights or want to pursue women rights
separately?
What would you lose or gain? The difference
is the split between the AWSA and the NWSA
The ERA Supporters have 1 million to
spend advocating for change
How would you distribute the 1 million to seek
change?
What would you lose or gain? The difference is the split between the
AWSA and the NWSA
The Split
NWSA
Stanton and Anthony
Issues: Right to vote, divorce laws,
ending discrimination at work and
pay
AWSA
Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia
Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips
Issues: Right to vote
Iron Jawed Angels
1776
New Nation
Abigail Adams
1869 NWSA
and AWSA
1848 Seneca
Falls
1913
Congressional
Union
lobbies
Congress
Suffrage,
divorce and
jury of peers
1837 Slave
Convention
1860-64 Civil
War
1914 WWI
Begins
13-15
Amendments
1890 NAWSA
Cult of Domesticity
&
Chinese immigration
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns: Parade
Organizers and NWP
Rose Winslow
Inez Milholland
Parade
Carrie Catt and NAWSA
1. NAWSA leader
2. Believed an amendment
to the Constitution was
not possible
Ida B Wells
In 1884, when 22 and a teacher in Tennessee,
Wells-Barnett ignored a train conductor's order
directing her to sit in a segregated car.
Editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free
Speech and Headlight
Documented lynchings across the country, and
raised awareness challenging alleged white
"superiority."
Women and
the West
1700-1800
1800s
Revolutionary
War and new
Ideas
Women stand up
and demand
change
1900s
1600-1700
Colonial America
Women get
Right to Vote
1920s
1950-1960s
1970-1980s
Right to vote
Civil Rights
Movement
Abortion legal
Sexuality
increases
Women work as
necessity
And Abortion
Laws
And Sexual
Revolution
Sexualizing Begins
Next Few Classes
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Comstock Laws and Abortion
Women in Ads
Sexual Revolution
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