Women's Advance through the 19th Century from 1860-1880
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An Army of Confederate Women |
Fighting the Battles & Losing the War |
Rebuilding Points Toward New South |
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When the Civil War began the role of women was to support the men and the war. This was accomplished by encouragement of men, sewing the battle flags, creating uniforms, selling valuables. Forming soldiers' societies were common and became the first examples of women unifying for other purposes.
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Women were faced with the reality of death
or injury of nearly half of southern men in the military age group.
Women, before the War, had engaged in an informal contract with
men. They would fulfill certain roles and in exchange would be protected
by men. Due to the War, men could not fulfill these roles, from
absence, injury & death or involvement in political affairs. |
During the war women emerged from their regular place to the public limelight for the first time. After the war not all women returned to the roles they played before the War. Many had to earn a living. Others did not want to relinquish authority or the right to step outside of their previous roles.
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Selected US Facts
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1860 Croquet introduced from England |
1861 Vassar college started with equal facilities to men | 1861 Matthew Brady starts photo record of Civil War |
1862 Julia Ward Howe writes "Battle
Hymn" |
1863 Union conscription $300 for
sub |
1866 First YWCA in Boston |
1866 Civil Rights Acts passed |
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1867 Kl Klux Klan formed in Nashville |
1869 LM Alcott Little Women & Transcontinental
Railroad |
1870 Census 39.8 mil. 4.9 mil. freed blacks,
2.3 mil. immigrants |
1876 AG Bell invents telephone |
1878 Yellow Fever kills 14,000 in South |
Politics
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1861 |
1861 |
1862 |
1863 |
1864 |
1865 |
1870 |
1876 |
1880 |
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LA Secedes |
Fort Sumter fired on starts war |
Adm. Farragut captures NO |
Emancipation Proclamation & Gettysburg address |
Sherman's Army in Georgia |
Lee surrenders & 13th Amendment |
Carpetbaggers & Scalawags in politics |
RB Hayes wins presidency |
Garfield as president |
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