Pasco Hernando State College History of the United States Essay

800 to 1,000 words describing how different life is for women now compared to how life was in the years before 1921 (100 years ago or more). From these sources, note how different life was and discuss how change came about that allows modern women social and professional differences only imagined by women in the 19th century. Cite the sources properly using MLA formatting as you use them.

This short article by Allison Lange published by the National Women's History Museum sets up the content of this week's media which go into more historical detail of the women of the early years of the republic. Cite this as (Lange)

http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/early-republic

"Women in the American Revolution" discusses the various roles women took in the American Revolution. It was published by American Battlefield Trust. Cite this source as (ABT).

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/women-american-revolution?ms=googlepaid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyo3akrXM8gIVFqSzCh0DCAyUEAMYASAAEgK3-vD_BwE (Links to an external site.)

Women's Suffrage by John Green covers the early history of women in America through about 1920. Cite this as (Green Suffrage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEMscZE5dY

The following article about Harriet Tubman during the Civil War was written for Smithsonian Magazine by Alice George. "Why Harriet Tubman's Heroic Military Career is Easier to Envision" tells the story of Tubman's Career in the military wrapped around a 19th century photograph of her as a young lady that was found in 2017.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-harriet-tubmans-heroic-military-career-now-easier-envision-180975038/ (Links to an external site.)

The following video produced by Columbia University is a discussion of the end of Coverture in the US. In it Linda Kerber and her guest discuss the the baby steps taken to end the practice through various Supreme Court cases and especially the 14th Amendment, an amendment passed during Reconstruction after the American Civil War. The interviewee uses as her base of information the Notorious RBG as a catalyst for ending coverture. Cite this as (Kerber). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkiYa5U_lug

The first reading lays the groundwork for the campaign for Prohibition. This essay by Alice W. Campbell of the Social History Project at Virginia Commonwealth University tells the story of how Prohibition got started and how it led to the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution. Cite this as (Campbell). https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/religious/the-temperance-movement/ (Links to an external site.)

The second medium is a video about the most colorful character of the Temperance Movement, Carrie Nation. A passionate advocate of temperance, she entered saloons (joints) with a hatchet and destroyed the inventory and fixtures until she was arrested. This video, by Christian Shively, covers her campaign in Kansas, but she toured the eastern US and continued her campaign. Cite this medium as (Shively). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiYNh-OLcE

The next medium explains why, in contrast to depictions in entertainment media, there was little protest of the beginning of Prohibition when it began in 1920. "Why America Supported Prohibition 100 Years Ago" by Mark Lawrence Schrad and published in the New York Times, is an expose on why so much of America accepted Temperance–at least in the beginning. Cite this essay as (Schrad). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/prohibition-anniversary-100.html (Links to an external site.)

Finally, the Article, "Prohibition was a Failed Experiment in Moral Governance" in The Atlantic by Annika Niklason from January 16, 2020 explains why Prohibition failed. In it, the author ties the Prohibition experience to modern concerns such as the War on Drugs and abortion. She also explains why enforcement of laws outlawing crimes of immorality does not work for society. Cite this essay as (Niklason). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/prohibition-was-failed-experiment-moral-governance/604972/