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 • • • • Comstock Laws and Abortion Women in Ads Sexual Revolution Your Presentations