UNIT SIX CLASS NOTES PART 1 REFORM, WAR, AND INVENTIONS
PROGRESSIVE REFORMS 1.Rapid development = Lack of services & transportation, unsafe workplaces, & political corruption. 2.Progressive Movement: A collection of reforms to protect consumers & workers. - Examples: Right to vote for women & establishment of federal income tax
PROHIBITION 1. Attempts were made to make the production, selling, & buying of alcohol illegal. 2. Reasons in support: Alcohol caused crime, abuse of women/kids, & debt 3. The 18th Amendment made alcohol illegal. - WA still “wet”, got alcohol from Canada - Not easily enforced, often ignored by police
Title King County Sheriff Matt Starwich (center) and two men in a room with still and bootlegging materials, ca. 1925
Man using an axe to destroy a vat of alcohol, ca. 1925
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1.Women were not allowed to vote or serve on a jury. 2.In 1871, Susan B. Anthony and Abigail Scott Duniway helped to form the Washington Woman Suffrage Association. - Used protests & rallies to gather support
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 3. In 1910, the Washington State Constitution was amended to grant women the right to vote. - This was 10 years before the national suffrage amendment was passed.
Susan B. Anthony
Seattle women posting signs to promote woman suffrage, 1910