| Women make Gains | Marriage and Family | Breaking Barriers |
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What is Catherine Beecher
Early champions believed that women should be educated for their traditional roles in life
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What is the mid-1800s
when women had few rights
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What is women
In the 1800s they had few career choices.
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What is “to train women to be healthful, intelligent, and successful wives, mothers, and housekeepers.”
The Milwaukee College for Women used Beecher’s ideas
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What is women
they depended on men
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What is elementary teachers
jobs that women could received
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What is Emma Willard
educated herself in subjects considered suitable only for males, such as science and mathematics
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What is California
the new state in the mid- to late-1800s
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What is struggle
what did women have to do to become doctors or work in ministry
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What is Mary Lyon
worked as a teacher for 20 years, began raising funds to open a women’s college
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What is New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and the new state of California
they recognized the right of married women to own property
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What is Elizabeth Blackwell
got accepted by Geneva College in New York, and graduated first in her class and achieved fame as a doctor
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What is Willards
a seminary that taught mathematics, history, geography, and physics
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What is Indiana
the first of several states that allowed women to seek divorce if their husbands abused alcohol
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What is Marie Mitchell
joined the faculty of Vassar College
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