Timeline

1830–1899 ∼ Domesticity and Morality

Cult of Domesticity relegates women to homemaking (1830–1880) / Seneca Falls, First Women’s Rights Convention, held (1848) / Female moral reformers attack prostitution as the product of male lust (1850s) / Wyoming is the first state to grant women the vote (1869) / Seven out of ten working women hold jobs as domestic servants (1870) / Passionlessness marriages controls birth rate (1870s–1880s) / Women begin to express favorable opinions about sex but in moderation (1890s)

MILESTONES: Interracial alliances of workers and farmers forge national organization, the Knights of Labor (1866) • Transatlantic telegraph cable laid to Europe (1857–1866) • Darwin’s Origins of the Species theorizes that man is descended from apes (1859) • Thomas Edison invents the light bulb (1879) and one horsepower generator (1881) • St. Andrews Golf Club at Yonkers, New York is formed, marking the beginning of golf in the U.S...