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Period 3: American Independence and Women in the Early Republic (1776-1848)
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WAPUSH: Period 3: American Independence and Women in the Early Republic (1776-1848)
Resources for students and teachers interested in the creation of an AP Women's U.S. History course
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Period 1: Indigenous Societies, Origins-1491
Period 2: Colonization and Impact on Women’s Experiences (1492-1775)
Period 3: American Independence and Women in the Early Republic (1776-1848)
Period 4: Seneca Falls, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1848-1876
Period 5: Inequality and reform in the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, 1877-1913
Period 6: World Wars & the Early Cold War 1914-1970s
Period 7: The Women’s Liberation Movement, 1963-1973
Period 8: Feminist Waves & the Backlash, 1973-1991
Period 9: Contemporary Women's Issues, 1970-Present
3.1: Contextualizing Period 3
Working Cures Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
By Sharla M. Fett
The Lost Story of Julia Chinn
3.2: Abolitionism
Advertisement for the Capture of Oney Judge, Philadelphia Gazette (May 24, 1796)
Encyclopedia Virginia
In Their Own Words: Women’s Petitions to Congress
Center for Legislative Archives
Publications by Historian Manisha Sinha
3.3: Reform in Period 3
Abolition and Revolution
Women and the American Story, New York Historical Society
Shakerism: Its Meaning and Message
Biography of Prudence Crandall
National Women's History Museum
3.4: Constitutional Foundations
Federalist v. Anti-Federalist
Women and the American Story, New York Historical Society
Paradox of Liberty
National Museum of African American History & Culture
Op-Ed: It’s time to recognize Sally Hemings as a first lady of the United States
Los Angeles Times
3.5: White women in early America
Cuming Sisters: "She-Merchants" of Boston
Boston National Historical Park
One the Equality of the Sexes
By Judith Sargent Murray, from Teaching American History
The Role of Women in the American Revolution
Boston Tea Party Museum
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
By Jill Lepore
3.6: Women and slavery
Painting of Benjamin Lay
National Portrait Gallery
A Letter from the New York Manumission Society
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
The Life of Sally Hemings
Monticello
3.7: Gender politics in the early republic
Who Was the Public Universal Friend?
New York Public Library
Maria W. Stewart "Why Sit Ye Here and Die?" - Sept. 21, 1832
Iowa State University
Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Architect of the Capitol
Lucretia Mott Discourse on Women - Dec. 17, 1849
By Lucretia Mott, from Iowa State University, Archives of Women's Political Communication
First Families from the White House
Archived, published during the Biden administration
3.8: Women in the northern workforce
Lowell Mill Girls
AFL-CIO website
Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
National Park Service
3.9: Cult of domesticity
Cult of Domesticity
National Humanities Center
Ms. Magazine: Review of When and Where I Enter
Book by Paula Giddings
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