Women in Civil War

​Women in Civil War

​Vocabulary

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Suffragist: a person who supports extending voting rights especially to women

​Recruiter: a person whose job is to enlist or enroll people as employees, in the armed forces, or as members of an organization.

​Socialite: a person who is well known in fashionable society and is fond of social activities and entertainment.

​Superintendent: a person who manages an organization or activity.

​Facilitate: make (an action or process) easy or easier.

​Evangelist: A person who travels from pace to place, trying to persuade people that they should become Christian.

​Emancipation: Freeing someone from slavery

Match

Match the following

• Facilitate

• a person who is well known in fashionable society and is fond of social activities and entertainment.

• a person who supports extending voting rights especially to women

• Superintendent

• a person whose job is to enlist or enroll people as employees, in the armed forces, or as members of an organization.

make an action or process easy or easier

Socialite

Suffragist

a person who manages an organization

Recruiter

• make an action or process easy or easier

• Socialite

• Suffragist

• a person who manages an organization

• Recruiter

Multiple Choice

What was one of the most well-known of roles women filled during the Civil War?

• Teacher

• Nurse

• Spy

• Political activist

Fill in the Blank

Some women even worked on the battlefields. They brought ......................... to wounded soldiers.

Multiple Choice

Which ones were valuable as spies?

• Black women

• White women

• Black men

• White men

Fill in the Blank

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were women's rights ......................