TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Women's Rights 1865–1920

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Objectives Describe how women won the right to vote. Identify the new opportunities that women gained during the Progressive Era. Explain how the temperance movement gained strength during the early 1900s.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Terms and People Carrie Chapman Catt – leader of the women’s movement who devised a strategy to win suffrage suffragist – person who worked for women’s right to vote Alice Paul – suffragist who worked for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Terms and People (continued) Frances Willard – president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union prohibition – a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. How did women gain new rights? At the turn of the century, women gained new rights by laboring in fields and factories, working as reformers, and petitioning the government for equality.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Slowly, more and more women gained the advanced degrees needed to enter a profession. By 1900, there were: 1,000 women lawyers 7,000 women doctors Women continued to struggle for equality in the professional world.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Women made important contributions as reformers, tackling many difficult issues of the day. Raised money for libraries, schools, and parks Demanded pure food and drugs Pressed for laws protecting women and children Boycotted goods produced by children Investigated conditions in sweatshops Worked to end segregation and violence against African Americans

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Many women took a leading role in the temperance movement, favoring prohibition. They hoped to convince others of what they believed were the moral evils of alcohol.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Frances Willard, the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, called for states to ban the sale of alcohol. Carrie Nation took more violent actions, storming into saloons and smashing liquor bottles.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Eighteenth Amendment In 1917, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, enforcing prohibition. The amendment was ratified by the states in 1919.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 marked the start of an organized women’s movement, which continued after the Civil War. By far, however, the most important goal of women reformers was women’s suffrage. National Woman Suffrage Association Founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1869 Pushed for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. As more and more women began to work outside the home, support for women’s suffrage grew across the nation. In the West, where women worked alongside men, women won the right to vote before 1900.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Though some women could vote in state and local elections, many still could not vote in federal elections. Calls continued for an amendment allowing women in all the states to vote in all elections. Most politicians, however, opposed women’s suffrage.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. In the early 1900s, a new generation of suffragists such as Carrie Chapman Catt took up the campaign to win the vote. She and her supporters devised a plan to win suffrage state by state.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. One by one, states in the West and Midwest gave women the right to vote.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The suffragist Alice Paul took her protests to the White House. President Wilson eventually pledged his support.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Finally, in 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Nineteenth Amendment The amendment was ratified by the states in 1920.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Nineteenth Amendment doubled the number of eligible voters. Some people saw women’s suffrage as the final victory, while others saw it as one step on the road to full equality.