Industrialization and Progressivism CSS 11.1, 11.2, 11.3. 11.5, 11.6 1877 - 1917 Unit 2—Chapters 3 – 4 Industrialization and Progressivism CSS 11.1, 11.2, 11.3. 11.5, 11.6

Marvelous Monday, October 13, 2014 Take your Seat Take out your Notebook Precious Time Precious Time: Answer the EQ for your “Drive for Reform Notes” Add in Cornell questions Highlight your notes Work on anything

Marvelous Monday, October 13, 2014 Take your Seat Take out the “Muckrakers” article Begin Warm-Up Warm-Up: With your partner review each of the questions and your answers Be sure you discuss what stood out to you from the article

FN: “Progressive Women” Homework: Precious Time FN: “Progressive Women” Homework: Ch. 4 Sec. 2 – read and complete hw questions

Progressive Women EQ: How did women of the Progressive Era make progress and win the right to vote?

typists seamstresses

Sadie Frowne’s Weekly Budget (Seamstresses in NYC, 1902) Food and Laundry Total $1.21 Tea $0.06 Cocoa $0.10 Bread and rolls $0.40 Canned vegetables $0.20 Potatoes Milk $0.21 Fruit Butter $0.15 Meat $0.60 Fish Laundry $0.25 Rent (plus housekeeping duties) $0.75 Clothing $1.00 Savings ($200 saved so far) Total $3.96

Muller v. Oregon – Women’s Working Rights 1903 Oregon law limits number of hours women work to 10/day Supreme Court agrees that long hours hurt women and their families Backfires a bit when employers use this argument to pay women less "That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race."  Quick-Write What does this quote suggest about women’s physical abilities? How could this have been politically or socially harmful to women?

Women Make Progress Higher Education Early 1900’s - Women want more than just being a housewife Women’s colleges help them achieve goals Teachers, nurses, social reform Mount Holyoke College  is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

Changes in Family Life Margaret Sanger and Birth Control Life would improve with fewer children First birth-control clinic in 1916 Began Planned Parenthood

Social Reforms Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1873 members advanced their cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol Carrie Nation used a hatchet 18th Amendment (Prohibition) federal ban on the manufacture and transportation of alcohol motivated by anti-immigrant feelings

Women’s Suffrage

Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) 19th Amendment, 1920 Carrie Chapman Catt (NAWSA) tried to get states to give women the vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, were the leaders of NAWSA by 1919, only 15 states (mostly in the west) gave all women the vote

Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Alice Paul (NWP) protested outside the White House in 1917 hundreds were arrested for protesting An amendment finally passed in 1920 Tennessee passed it by one vote 20 million women voted in the first election in the fall of 1920