SS360 American Women

1. SS360American Women With Rick Elder Unit 6

2. SS360 – American Women • Greetings and Welcome to our seminar for Unit 6. • I have been reading some good Discussion Board Questions for this week so far, and I think everyone is probably happy no project was due yesterday. • Now for my Upper Michigan slide of the Week. • This is to me an interesting one. It is from the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan near the tiny town of Copper Harbor, Michigan. You can’t get much further north in Michigan than this unless you go to Isle Royal National Park in Lake Superior.

3. Upper Michigan Slide of the Week #2 Unemployment in Keweenaw County, Michigan ranged between 70 and 80% in 1933. The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge was a project of the Civil Works Administration (CWA). Today it is still in business, and owned by Keweenaw County. It is a tourist resort with a golf course and cabins.

4. Upper Michigan Slide of the Week #1 This is the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge in Copper Harbor, MI, and it is a project that was built during the Great Depression.

5. SS360 – American Women Major societal shifts in late nineteenth century America involved women of every race, age, nationality, and class. Huge waves of immigrants entered America each year bringing their own cultures and attitudes yet soon attempting to adapt to the American way. Source: KU class web site SS360.

6. SS360 – American Women The Western frontier filled and eventually seemed closed, although the United States continued to expand through international imperialism. In this unit, we will explore the impact these broad developments had on the lives of diverse groups of American women. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

7. SS360 – American Women • LEARNING OUTCOMES • After completing this unit, you should be able to … • Describe the working and living conditions of immigrant women. • Assess the experiences of women living on the frontier • Analyze the effects of westward expansion on Native American women. • Source: KU class web site SS360

8. SS360 – American Women • You will read chapter 7 in Through Women’s Eyes. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

9. SS360 – American Women • We will discuss many aspects of women’s lives in late nineteenth century America, including the frontier experience and the hardships faced by immigrants. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

10. SS360 – American Women How did settlement houses address the societal ills affecting women in the late nineteenth century? Why do you think these institutions remained segregated?

11. What do you think it would have been like to live on the frontier in the late 1800s? Which experience that you have read about do you identify with most? (farmwife, store owner, prostitute, etc.) Why?

12. SS360 – American Women • The seminar will discuss the familial relationships of immigrants. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

13. SS360 – American Women How did you like the virtual field trip to the National Museum of Women’s History? I think it was pretty interesting. Source: KU class web site SS360.

14. SS360 – American Women • For this week’s Project … You will write a 2-3 page paper discussing the effects of westward expansion on Native American women. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

15. SS360 – American Women Buffalo Bill Cody and many of the events he was involved in had many devastating effects on Native women and their families. This was long before he became a “showman.” 1915 Source: Menominee County Museum, Menominee, MI

16. SS360 – American Women Annie Oakley Source: http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/cowgals/oakley.htm

17. SS360 – American Women • The Reservation system – virtual prisons – poor land and unable to make a living on the land. Indians became wards of the state. • Proud Indian women now were standing in lines for pathetic government hand outs of food and supplies. • Indian children were often taken hundreds of miles or more away from home to attend boarding schools to be taught “whiteness.” See picture on page 395.

18. SS360 – American Women • The Family West as compared t0 the so called “Wild West.” • Outlaws, Miners, Fur Traders and a few women at first. • Did the “Miss Kitty” kind of woman exist that was portrayed in the old TV show Gun Smoke?

19. SS360 – American Women • Yes they did. Chicago Joe is only one example and another one was Klondike Kate of Dawson City, Yukon (An American woman working in Canada).

20. SS360 – American Women Josephine (Chicago Joe) Hensley http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-chicagojoe.html

21. SS360 – American Women Kathleen Rockwell AKA Klondike Kate Source: Wikipedia

22. SS360 – American Women • More important names and events from this time… • Shige Kushida – Japanese – pg. 390. • Sarah Winnemacca – Paiute – translator and critic of the Reservation system. • Helen Hunt Jackson – A Century of Dishonor – Page 397. • Lulu Smith – dressmaker in Boley, Oklahoma pg. 397. • Source: KU class web site SS360.

23. The Decision to Immigrate. • Emma Goldman – Pg. 405. • Chinese Immigration Pg. 407. • The Page Law – 1875 • The Chinese Exclusion Act – 1882 • The Gentleman’s Agreement 1907.

24. SS360 – American Women • I hope you have enjoyed our sixth seminar, and I look forward to reading your Discussion Board responses this week. • This is it for this week. Have a good week and we will chat again next Wednesday. • Rick Elder, KU