2. New Opportunities for Women
By 1900, more than one-third of college students were women
Started out engaging in reform movements: Example Jane Addams and the Settlement Houses

3. Women worked as teachers and nurses, but also as bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, shop clerks, and journalists
Working class women worked in the garment industry

4. Educated women blocked from medicine, law, and the clergy
Fewer than 1500 women practiced law in 1900, only 6% of women practiced medicine

6. “This is the women’s age
“This is the women’s age. At last…women are coming into the labor and festival of life on equal terms with men.”

7. Why Organize? Sense of Christian Mission
Fear of social upheaval because of political tensions
Concern about power of wealthy individuals and corporations
Wanting to Americanize immigrants and fight for rights of others who needed help

9. Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL)
Middle class women workers
Wanted to limit hours
Regulate working conditions
1908 Muller v. Oregon : Limited work day for women to 10 hours a day

11. Jane Addams Opened the Hull House in Chicago in 1889
Practiced Idea of Social Gospel-advocates worked to better conditions of the city through philanthropy and social work

13. Temperance Movement Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Attacks on alcohol as part of push for social purity
Drinking was linked to prostitution, wife and child abuse, unemployment and work accidents

16. 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
Ratified in 1919, this banned the manufacturing, sale and distribution of alcohol

19. Using state by state approach, suffragists had achieved success through massive door-to-door referendum campaign
1869 Wyoming became first territory to grant women the right to vote
In New York, suffragists were defeated

21. NAWSA
National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Campaigned for a constitutional amendment to give women the vote
Also supported organized labor

23. Susan B. Anthony
Wrote pamphlets, gave speeches, also testified before every Congress between 1869 and 1906
Registered to vote, and on Election Day she voted in New York and was arrested fined $100
This is an example of Civil Disobedience

25. NWP National Woman’s Party
Militant Suffragist Movement led by Alice Paul
Continuously picketed the White House and went on hunger strikes in prison

28. “Every day that the Government sends women to prison for holding harmless banners…makes the position of the Government more indefensible and therefore strengthens our position.”
-Alice Paul 1917

30. 19th Amendment
Passed by Congress in 1919
Granted Women Right to Vote (Suffrage)
Ratified by states in 1920