American+Diversity


 * EXPLORE THIS THEME BROADLY AND IN DEPTH, FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT, PULL IN SPECIFIC EXAMPLES, AND CREATE A STUDY GUIDE FOR YOUR CLASSMATES:**

**American Diversity: **The __diversity of the American people__ and the __relationships among different groups__. The __roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender__ in the history of the United States.

__Women__ · Women were in charge of the family “moral” · Some joined the Daughters of the Revolution – more activism · Women were known as moral and religious models. · More freedom in Utopian communities · Working class women in the labor movement (Mills) · Middle class women education reform o Catherine Beecher o Grimke Sisters- first to speak to a co-ed audience. For abolition. · Cult of Domesticity · Seneca Falls Convention – 1848 o First Women’s Rights Convention § Elizabeth Stanton § Lucretia Mott · //Sojourner Truth – Diary of a Slave Woman.// Supported the Union Dorthea Dicks- Mental Health Institute Women helping with abolitionism are disappointed when they don’t get the same rights. · Gibson Girl- Ideal but not realistic · Jane Adams- Hull House · Ida B. Wells- Nation Association of Colored Women · Victoria Woodhull- //Free Love// · Anthony Comstock- Comstock Law (can’t send birth control to females) · Gilman- Women in Economics · Women’s Christian Temperance Movement- rallied against alcohol o Carrie Nation- destroyed bars · National American Women’s Suffrage Association o Led by Stanton and Anthony Progressive · roaring 20’s Other · 19th amendment- right to vote-1920 · Women propaganda and posters. · Volunteerism o Red Cross · women started to have jobs
 * Puritan ages**
 * Revolution ages**
 * Great Awakening**
 * Antebellum Period (1815-1860)**
 * Industrial Revolution (1870s)**
 * World War I**
 * World War II**

Betty Friedan- Feminine Mystique The ERA- Equal Rights Amendment
 * 1960s**
 * 1970s**

blacks vs. whites: -13th amendment: outlawed slavery -Plessey vs. Fergusonseparate but equal (14th amendment)/Jim Crow Laws -15th amendment: right to vote -Booker T. Washington: blacks shouldn’t ask for social or political equality but instead establish an economic base for their advancement; Atlanta Compromise -De Boise: education of blacks should create leaders willing to challenge segregation and discrimination through social protest and political action; Niagara movement; NAACP -Freedman’s bureau (1865) to help the freed blacks -Civil Rights Bill of 1866: blacks have the privileges of American citizenship and attacked the southern black codes -KKK -blacks had lower-paying and less skilled jobs during new south -KKK rises again during 1920s: white protestants; nativism