Urbanization What were some Urban Problems?
Dead horse -killed from over-exertion in pulling the streetcars
Cable Cars replaced the horse-drawn street cars
What are the pros and cons of the cable car?
Electric Streetcar (a.k.a. Trolley)
A crowded intersection in Chicago, late 19th century
-Christianity and Morality Urban Reform Was this a Third Great Awakening? Themes: -Christianity and Morality -Women -Nativism -Rapid Social Change
Social Gospel Movement Protestant churches losing membership Church would attempt to solve social problems Washington Gladden Walter Rauschenbusch
New Religions and Organizations Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science Faith healing Salvation Army imported from England preached while delivering charity YMCA and YWCA
Settlement House Movement 1889 - Hull House For homeless, immigrants, unemployed Family - style cooking, education, culture Jane Addams Upper and middle class women By 1900, there were nearly 100 New field of work - social work Florence Kelley
Temperance Why a women’s issue? WCTU - Frances Willard 1879 - 1899 no men permitted branched into settlement house work went to bars
Carrie Nation 18th Amendment Anti-Saloon League violence attacked bars and stockpiles of alcohol Anti-Saloon League 18th Amendment 1917 (Prohibition)
Nativist Responses Immigrant Response American Protective League Public Education Immigrant Response “Ethnic Enclaves” Catholic Schools
Women’s Suffrage Movement originated in 1848 at Seneca Falls Diverted by Civil War Split over ratification of 15th Amendment “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
National American Woman’s Suffrage Association - 1890 Carrie Chapman Catt -- leader of next generation “Winning Plan” to campaign simultaneously for suffrage on both the state and federal levels, and to compromise for partial suffrage in the states resisting change 19th Amendment 1919
Some Milestones Women campaigned on a state by state level Some dressed up as men to vote and set up mock ballot boxes In 1869 the Wyoming territorial legislature granted full voting rights to women In 1890, it became the first state to grant full women's suffrage .. Why women’s suffrage in the West?
Milestones Victoria Woodhull free love ran for President in 1872 challenged the Victorian morality Charlotte Perkins Gillman Women and Economics Thesis: Subordination of women is result of their economic dependence on men. Women should seek equality in the workplace, no longer focus on “domestic sphere.” -other works?
CPG quotes “There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.” "It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it."