Settlement House, Temperance, to Suffrage Women’s Struggle for the 19th
Settlement House
Louis Brandeis
Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1874 Frances Willard – leader Prohibition of alcohol – main goal –City sins – prostitution, political corruption –Domestic abuse –Poor –Immigrants Taught women: lobby, raise $, run for office
Willard
Carrie Nation
Margaret Sanger
Suffrage Susan B AnthonyElizabeth Cady Stanton
Catt
Suffrage 2 groups emerge during WWI –National Women’s Party (NWP) Alice Paul Against the war Militant – marches and hunger strikes –National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA) Catt Supported Wilson’s re-election Strong women involvement in war
Alice Paul
19 th Amendment Wilson pushes for it –Strength of NAWSA patriotism –Annoyance of NWP Ratified in 1920!!!