Women's History

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Across
  1. 2. Neighborhoods outside of the cities
  2. 3. ___ the Riveter is a WWII motivational poster that came to symbolize women in the workforce
  3. 6. Helped lead Lewis and Clark on their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
  4. 11. Limiting what you can buy to make sure there is enough for the war effort
  5. 12. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin exposed horrors of slavery
  6. 14. This amendment gave women the right to vote
  7. 15. Nickname for the time period in which alcohol was illegal
  8. 16. The desire to end all slavery everywhere.
  9. 17. Wrote the “Feminine Mystique” which said women had bigger goals than being housewives. Led to the start of the modern women’s rights movement (birth control)
Down
  1. 1. In the 1950’s, this describes the “job” women had. Women were expected to cook, clean and care for the kids when the men came home from WWII
  2. 2. The first women’s right’s convention
  3. 4. When whites left the cities in large groups to move into the suburbs (took jobs with them resulting in poorer inner cities)
  4. 5. Loans to the government to pay for the war
  5. 7. In this area of the US most women could here vote before the 19th amendment
  6. 8. Anti-lynching
  7. 9. Secret bars during Prohibition
  8. 10. This word means the right to vote
  9. 13. This amendment banned the sale, production, and distribution of alcohol. It was promoted by the Temperance Movement.
  10. 18. Young women of the 1920’s who challenged traditional values, by drinking, smoking and flirting