Unit - The Events Leading to the Civil War & the War
Connection 1: The lives of women changed dramatically during the American Civil War. They played important roles both at home and on the battlefield. On the home front, women for both sides had to manage the household while their husbands and sons were off fighting battles. On the battlefield, women helped to supply the soldiers, provide medical care, and worked as spies.
Connection 2: Although women were not allowed to fight as soldiers, many women still managed to join the army and fight. They did this by disguising themselves as men. They would cut their hair short and wear bulky clothes.
Unit - Reconstruction Era
Connection 1: Women still could not vote, but that did not stop them from taking an active political role during Reconstruction. Confederate white women were called upon to take loyalty oaths to the U.S. government as part of the push to rebuild national ties.
Connection 2: Women also sought to redefine their roles within the nation and in their local communities. The abolitionist and women’s rights movements simultaneously converged and began to clash.
Unit - Eastern Encroachment
Connection 1: Southern white women created Confederate memorial societies to help preserve the memory of the "Lost Cause." This activity propels many white Southern women into the public sphere for the first time.
Connection 2: Not all women believed in equality for the sexes. Women who upheld traditional gender roles argued that politics were improper for women. Some even insisted that voting might cause some women to "grow beards."
Unit - Gilded Age
Connection 1: The struggle for woman's suffrage had emerged in the national spotlight in a small convention held in a Seneca Falls, NY church in 1848. There the gathered delegates drafted a call featuring twelve goals for women, including gaining the franchise.
Connection 2: Women of the Gilded Age were breaking away from the norms that restricted their mothers' to the Cult of Domesticity. Many were entering into higher education, working, some were campaigning for the right to vote, and many were building the roots of the Progressive Era and modern day social services.
Connection 1: The lives of women changed dramatically during the American Civil War. They played important roles both at home and on the battlefield. On the home front, women for both sides had to manage the household while their husbands and sons were off fighting battles. On the battlefield, women helped to supply the soldiers, provide medical care, and worked as spies.
Connection 2: Although women were not allowed to fight as soldiers, many women still managed to join the army and fight. They did this by disguising themselves as men. They would cut their hair short and wear bulky clothes.
Unit - Reconstruction Era
Connection 1: Women still could not vote, but that did not stop them from taking an active political role during Reconstruction. Confederate white women were called upon to take loyalty oaths to the U.S. government as part of the push to rebuild national ties.
Connection 2: Women also sought to redefine their roles within the nation and in their local communities. The abolitionist and women’s rights movements simultaneously converged and began to clash.
Unit - Eastern Encroachment
Connection 1: Southern white women created Confederate memorial societies to help preserve the memory of the "Lost Cause." This activity propels many white Southern women into the public sphere for the first time.
Connection 2: Not all women believed in equality for the sexes. Women who upheld traditional gender roles argued that politics were improper for women. Some even insisted that voting might cause some women to "grow beards."
Unit - Gilded Age
Connection 1: The struggle for woman's suffrage had emerged in the national spotlight in a small convention held in a Seneca Falls, NY church in 1848. There the gathered delegates drafted a call featuring twelve goals for women, including gaining the franchise.
Connection 2: Women of the Gilded Age were breaking away from the norms that restricted their mothers' to the Cult of Domesticity. Many were entering into higher education, working, some were campaigning for the right to vote, and many were building the roots of the Progressive Era and modern day social services.