What roles did women play in the pre-Civil War era? How was the prohibition against being politically active circumvented? How did the women’s movement emerge from the Abolition and reform movements? What was the response to the Seneca Falls Convention? What is meant by “new” woman in the period between 1860-1920?What effect did westernization have on women as householders and as citizens? What is meant by “Victorian values” in this time period? What is the difference made by urbanization? What differences were noteworthy among women in the North and South regarding the Civil War? What contributed to the change in status for women in workplaces and in education in the second half of the 19th century? What is “progressivism” and how does Jane Addams come to exemplify this movement?How does unionization and economic empowerment drive the movement for suffrage?What are the trends in women’s education during this time period? How does that affect women in the professional world? What factors allow for the growth of women’s clubs, and how does this incorporate black women’s clubs in the 19th century? Who were some of the notable women in the progressive movement? What did they accomplish? How did the tradition of “muckraking” include advocacy for women?
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