1. America Comes of Age (1890-1920)
Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights

2. America Comes of Age (1890-1920) Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights
Learning Objectives
Analyze actions taken by women to address social issues affecting workers and families.
Explain actions taken during the Progressive era to expand opportunities for women, including the right to vote.
Evaluate the tactics reform leaders used to win passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

3. America Comes of Age (1890-1920) Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights
Key Terms
Florence Kelley
National Consumers League (NCL),
temperance movement
Frances Willard
suffrage
Margaret Sanger
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Alice Paul,
Nineteenth Amendment,

4. Expanding Opportunities for Women
In the early 1900s, a growing number of women were no longer content to have a limited role in society. Women activists helped bring about Progressive reforms and won the right to vote. In the years ahead, women would continue the struggle to expand their roles and rights.

5. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Economic and Social Issues for Women
Addressing Economic Issues
Women Address Social Issues

6. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Analyze Graphs In what decade did the number of women enrolled in institutions of higher education increase the most? What do you think spurred this change?

7. Expanding Opportunities for Women
1900 1/3 of college kids were women
Armed with education – tackle social problems
Because women couldn’t vote – not much to do about issues (long work hours, husband gets money)
Muller v. Oregon – 10 hours a day work women
Temperance movement – help keep mothers families healthy and safe
Suffrage – right to work
Margaret Sanger – believed women’s health would improve if mothers had fewer children
Jailed
Opened country’s first birth control clinic

8. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Like their male counterparts, women workers, like these women in a cigar factory near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, struggled with unpleasant and sometimes unhealthy working conditions.

9. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
One of the boldest goals of Progressive women was suffrage. They argued that women participating in the democratic process through voting was the only way to make sure that the government would protect children, foster education, and support family life. As Jane Addams explained, women needed the vote because political issues reached inside people’s homes.

10. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
The Early Fight for a Constitutional Amendment
Women Lobby for Expanded Rights
Activists Use Nonviolent Protests
The Nineteenth Amendment Expands Political Rights

11. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
In 1869, Susan B. Anthony (shown here) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to continue the fight for women’s suffrage. NWSA later merged with another organization to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

12. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton early pioneers in Women’s Suffrage
1872, Anthony arrested for voting
By 1906 (Anthony’s Death), only 4 Western States gave women the right to vote.
Carrie Chapman Catt became leader of the NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association). Came up with a two prong attack – lobby Congress for a Constitutional Amendment and use the referendum on the state level
Referendums passed in NY, MI, OK

13. Jane Addams linked suffrage to other ills of society – got more women support
Alice Paul and the NWP (National Women Party) a little more in your face
Protested the White House (arrested)
Hunger strikes in jail
Turned women off
Wilson said WWI should make the world “safe for Democracy” ????
Russian envoy visits DC, over through the monarch and established a democracy – they let women vote.
Protested the envoy with a banner – embarrassed Wilson
“US not a democracy”
August 18th, 1920 – Tennessee by one vote passed Amendment to give women the right to vote
That November – women voted for the first time

14. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Hypothesize Why would an organization such as NAOWS oppose woman suffrage?

15. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Analyze Maps In which region of the United States did the majority of states achieve full suffrage for women before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

16. Quiz: Expanding Opportunities for Women
What was the purpose of the National Consumers League?
A. to discourage the production and sale of alcohol
B. to label products made under good working conditions
C. to unite upper-class and working-class women as leaders
D. to increase consumption in order to boost the economy

17. Quiz: Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Why did Suffragists criticize President Wilson for declaring, “the world must be made safe for democracy”?
A. They did not believe that the president could achieve such a lofty goal.
B. They did not believe that democracy could be a successful system of government.
C. They did not think that aiding foreign countries should be a priority of the United States.
D. They did not think that the United States could be a true democracy until women could vote.