Study Guide Midterm 2: Part I

1. Who was Helen Keller? Why was she important?
2. Discuss the First Wave of Feminism. And suffrage. How did it shape and change life for U.S. women going into the 20th century?
3. Discuss the Comstock Mine.
4. What were the Comstock Laws? What did they attempt to prevent or do? Why did some oppose them?
5. Who was Margaret Sanger and what did she do regarding the Comstock Laws?
6. What did Griswald vs. Connecticut do for women?
7. What was the Woman Rebel and what issues did it addres?
8. What was the American Birth Control League? Who founded it and for what purpose?
9. Why weren't women allowed to know about their own bodies? Forms of birthcontrol? The need for medical care?
10. When was the first oral birth control used and who developed it? The Pill?
11. How is the pill now different from when it was first made?
12. What was the problem with estrogen using pills?
13. What is an IUD? Why is it so widely used and why isn't it in the U.S.?
14. Identify:
Marie Stewart
Sojourner Truth
Margaret Sanger
Frank Colton
Carl Djerassi
Envoid
Birth control
Gregory Pincus

16. Discuss life for women in America before WWI in the U.S.? During WWI? After?
17. How was WWI different from other wars? What role did women play? Discuss jobs, wages and family for women during WWI. What happened to women workers after men came home from the war?
18. What was the Roaring 20s?
19. How had life and values changed for and toward women?
20. What were 'Victorian Values'?
21. Discuss jazz, speakeasies and prohibition.
22. Who were flappers? How were they viewed and why? What kinds of social activities, dancing and interests did these women have?
23. What is a middle class? Why is it important? What kinds of industries were created because of a middle class? What values changed?
24. How did the Industrial Revolution influence life in America? For women?
25. Discuss early captialism: Who were the Robber Barons? Why were they important? What industries did they dominate?
26. Why were factories and industry important? How did they change urban and rural areas? How did these businesses and early capitalism impact Americans? The American family? Women?
27. What was the Great Depression and when did it happen? How had the U.S. been able to avoid it for so long? Discuss the Stock Market Crash and Dust Bowl.
28. What did FDR do to help in the depression? How were families and women impacted because of the depression?
29. Discuss WWII. Who were the Axis and Allied Powers? How was this war different from previous wars? What happened to women in war and at home? What kinds of opporunities did they have?
30. How did the U.S. finally become invovlved in WWII? Why so late? What was D-Day? Normandy? How did the change the tide of the war?
31. What was the Holocaust? How many Jews in Europe were murdered because of this? What was the death toll of WWII?
32. How did WWII change the lives of American women? Why were they not willing to givve up what they had gained in the war?
33. What happened to Europe, Germany and the Allied countries after WWII? Where did the treaty talks occurr for WWII? How did this affect relations globally?
34. What is the Cold War? Discuss Soviet and U.S. relations. How did this influence the U.S., culture and lives of women?
35. Identify:
Iron Curtain
Eastern Bloc
Cold War
Gorbachev
Yeltzin
Thatcher
Reagan
The Wall
East Germany
West Germany
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Simone de Beauvior
Mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela

36. What was the Civil Rights Movement? Why is it important? How did it influence women in the U.S.? What areas of life did it seek to change?
37. What was segregation? What kinds of laws prevented blacks from voting? What is Jim Crow? Discuss conditions in schools, public transport etc. (especially in the South) for blacks. How was it even more difficult for black women?
39. Discuss minority women in the U.S. What special challenges did they face? How was it similiar or different to 'white' women?
40. What is Modern Feminism? Discuss the different kinds of feminism in the U.S.
41. What gains or losses have women in the U.S. experienced in the 21st century?