Transcript 4. LIZZIE BORDEN

3. Lizzie Borden and the Role of Women
IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASS, YOU
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NEED TO:
1) DO THE DQ FOR THE DAY. WRITE THE DAILY QUOTE AND
ANSWER THE QUESTION FOR THE DAY.
2) YOU ARE TO COPY THE NOTES (I GET MY COPY BACK).
3) READ THE “ROLE OF WOMEN” NOTES AND ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS/ ALSO THE WOMEN’S DOCUMENTS QUESTIONS
4) ANSWER THE TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
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Daily Quote &Question (DQ2 )
“Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her
mother forty whacks; / When she saw what
she had done, / She gave her father fortyone!”
-children’s rhyme
Describe the change that took place
in immigration to America in 1880?
SONG FOR THE DAY: 1. MAN! I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN
Daily Comment & Card
1920
WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
-The Nineteenth Amendment
provided for women’s suffrage
(voting)
-It was ratified by states in 1920
-Feminists who supported suffrage
beginning in the 1860s included
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt
SONG FOR THE DAY: I’m Every Woman
“Lizzie
Borden took
an axe / And
gave her
mother forty
1800s
whacks; /
When she
CULT OF
saw what she
DOMESTICITY
had done, /
AND REPUBLICAN She gave her
MOTHERHOOD
father
forty-one!”
-Cult of Domesticity refers to the
Daily Comment & Card
idealization of women in the roles
as wives and mothers. It
describes the women’s sphere as
that of the home
-Republican motherhood suggested
that women would be responsible
for rearing their children to be
virtuous citizens of the new
American republic.
-children’s
rhyme
SONG FOR THE DAY: MAN I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN
“Lizzie
Borden took
an axe / And
gave her
mother forty
1800s
whacks; /
When she
CULT OF
saw what she
DOMESTICITY
had done, /
AND REPUBLICAN She gave her
MOTHERHOOD
father
forty-one!”
-Cult of Domesticity refers to the
Daily Comment & Card
1920
WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
-The Nineteenth Amendment
provided for women’s suffrage
(voting)
-It was ratified by states in 1920
-Feminists who supported suffrage
beginning in the 1860s included
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt
idealization of women in the roles
as wives and mothers. It
describes the women’s sphere as
that of the home
-Republican motherhood suggested
that women would be responsible
for rearing their children to be
virtuous citizens of the new
American republic.
SONG FOR THE DAY: I’M EVERY WOMAN
-children’s
rhyme
The story of
LIZZIE
BORDEN
AUGUST 4, 1892 11:10 AM
ANDREW BORDEN
FOUND DEAD IN
HIS HOME!
AT 70, ANDREW BORDEN (ONE
OF THE RICHEST MEN IN
FALLS RIVER,
MASSACHUSETTS) LIVED
WITH HIS SECOND WIFE,
ABBY, AND HIS 2 UNMARRIED
DAUGHTERS-- LIZZIE AND
EMMA.
LIZZIE WAS THE FIRST TO
DISCOVER HER FATHER’S BODY…
HE’D BEEN STRUCK WITH AN AXE 11
TIMES IN THE HEAD (HIS NOSE WAS
SEVERED AND ONE EYE WAS CUT IN
HALF)…
LIZZIE CALLED FOR THE
ONLY OTHER PERSON IN
THE HOUSE, THE MAID
(BRIDGET) WHO WAS
RESTING UPSTAIRS AFTER
WASHING THE WINDOWS
(ON THE HOTTEST DAY OF
THE YEAR)…
BRIDGET RAN TO GET DR.
BOWEN—THE NEIGHBOR.
ANOTHER NEIGHBOR HEARD THE
COMMOTION AND SENT FOR THE
POLICE.
This neighbor went upstairs with Bridget
and discovered the body of Mrs. Borden
(Abby).
MRS. BORDEN HAD
BEEN STRUCK 18
TIMES FROM
BEHIND.
SUPPOSEDLY NO
ONE HEARD HER 5
FOOT TALL, 200
POUND BODY HIT
THE FLOOR.
Abby was
killed about
9:30 AM;
Andrew was
killed around
11:00 AM.
POLICE FOUND 4 HATCHETS IN THE
BASEMENT. ONE WAS WITHOUT A
HANDLE AND COVERED IN ASHES.
THIS WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE
MURDER WEAPON…
THIS IS THE
POLICE PHOTO
OF LIZZIE,
THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL
TEACHER,
WHO WAS
ARRESTED
AND CHARGED
WITH THE
MURDERS.
EMMA, WHO HAD RETURNED FROM
OUT OF TOWN, HIRED A LAWYER.
LIZZIE PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND
WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY JAIL
WITH FACILITIES FOR WOMEN.
LIZZIE’S TRIAL BEGAN IN JUNE OF
1893 AND LASTED 14 DAYS.
LIZZIE DID
NOT TESTIFY,
AND HER
INQUEST
TESTIMONY
WAS RULED
INADMISSIBLE
BECAUSE SHE
HAD NOT BEEN
CHARGED
WHEN HER
STATEMENT
WAS GIVEN.
WITNESSES
TESTIFIED THAT
HER FATHER HAD
DRAWN UP A NEW
WILL LEAVING
HALF HIS ESTATE
TO ABBY AND
DIVIDING THE
REST BETWEEN
EMMA AND
LIZZIE.
Another witness said that
Lizzie had tried to buy
prussic acid (a poison), but
the judge ruled this to be
irrelevant and inadmisable.
PROSECUTERS BROUGHT IN THE
SKULLS OF THE BORDENS AND
FIT THE HATCHET TO THE
FRACTURES…
Witnesses for
the defense
claimed to have
seen a
“mysterious
man” near the
Borden home.
Emma testified
that her sister
had no motive…
ON JUNE 20, 1893 THE JURY CAME
BACK WITH A VERDICT OF “NOT
GUILTY” ON ALL CHARGES…
LIZZIE BEGAN CALLING HERSELF LIZBETH
AND REFUSED TO LEAVE TOWN ALTHOUGH
SHE WAS OSTRACIZED. EMMA MOVED OUT
AFTER HER SISTER BECAME FRIENDS WITH
AN ACTRESS NAMED NANCE O’NEILL.
THE ENTIRE FAMILY IS BURIED IN
THE LOCAL CEMETARY.
THE HOUSE IS NOW A BED AND
BREAKFAST…
GO VISIT, BUT WATCH OUT FOR GHOSTS!!!
(by the way, it has its own episode of Ghost Hunters!)
THEORIES…
1. LIZZIE DID IT!
2.LIZZIE AND BRIDGET
CONSPIRED…
3. BRIDGET DID IT ALONE!
4.EMMA DID IT!
5. ILLEGITIMATE SON WILLIAM
DID IT!
6. JOSE CORRIERA?
(PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANT WHO KILLED
BERTHA MANCHESTER WITH AN AXE)
TV MOVIE
“THE LEGEND
OF LIZZIE
BORDEN”
STARRED
ELIZABETH
MONTGOMERY.
Why she couldn’t be guilty…
-The CULT OF DOMESTICITY defined women’s
roles as in the “sphere” of home and
children.
-Women were the moral leaders in the home and
educators of children.
-These ideas allowed women to be part of the
push for reform and change in this country…
so…
• She was a woman (they didn’t do such
things)
• She was a woman and not physically
capable of the brutality of the murder
• She was a woman and a moral leader
(sunday school teacher)
• She was a woman from the upper
section of society
…SHE WAS INNOCENT
Lizzie Borden song:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlOJ0v9ZY
Lizzie Borden House: Ghost Hunters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
jbZxxqbP8X4
28:36
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