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19th amendment: gave women the right to vote
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colonial society: no nobility class, 90 % small farmers, Christian ministry highly respected, lawyers and doctors of low respectability
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Declaration of Sentiments: declared that all "people are created equal"; used the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights
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Dorothea Dix: Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums
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Eleanor Roosevelt: most active First Lady ;; lobbying, speeches, newspaper column, battled for improverished & oppressed
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Elizabeth Blackwell: First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Co-founded the 1848 Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York
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Equal Rights Amendment: constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender
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flapper: a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress
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glass ceiling: a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions
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Grimke sisters: were 19th-century American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.
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Margaret Sanger: United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
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Rosie the Riveter: symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war
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Scopes trial: a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
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Seneca Falls Convention: convention held in 1848 to argue for womens rights
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suffragists: people who worked for women's right to vote
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Susan B. Anthony: social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
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Title IX: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
