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10.4 - Immigration, Urbanization and Reform (Women's Movement)

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Cult of Domesticity

Idea that men should leave home to work and earn money while women stayed at home to cook, clean and raise children. It developed in the early 1800s with the onset of the industrial revolution.

Victoria Woodhull

Women's rights advocate in the late 1800s. She was most famously a champion of free love.

The idea that women should be able to love whomever they want for however long they wanted, and change their mind as many times as they wanted. It was championed by Victoria Woodhull in the late 1800s.

Henry Ward Beecher

Famous preacher in the late 1800s in Brooklyn, NY. He had an affair with a married petitioner whose husband sued him. The trial was a nationally publicized public scandal. Victoria Woodhull used the case to argue for free love.

Any form of birth control.

Law passed in 1873 the prohibited the distribution of birth control and any material promoting birth control. It was used to prosecute Margaret Sanger.

Famous socialist activist at the turn of the century. She advocated for labor and women's rights, but lost credibility due to her connection to the Haymarket Square riot and President McKinley's assassin.

Margaret Sanger

Champion of birth control in the early 1900s.

Any form of contraception. The term was coined by Margaret Sanger.

Brownsville Clinic

Clinic opened in Brooklyn, NY by Margaret Sanger to provide birth control. It was closed down and Sanger was arrested for violation of the Comstock Act.

Planned Parenthood

Modern organization originally founded by Margaret Sanger. They provide health services and information to women, and most controversially, abortions.

Muller v. Oregon

1909 Supreme Court case that upheld a law limiting the number of hours women could work outside the home.

The right to vote.

Susan B. Anthony

Early champion of women's suffrage. She headed the NAWSA. She was honored when a silver dollar coin was minted in 1979 with her likeness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Early champion of women's suffrage. She cofounded a group with Susan B. Anthony.