1. The Suffrage Movement
Main Idea: Many Progressives joined the Suffrage Movement to gain women the right to vote in national elections.
Suffrage: the right to vote
Strategies for suffrage:
National Women’s Suffrage Assoc. wanted to focus on a Constitutional amendment
American Women’s Suffrage Assoc. wanted to work to convince stage governments to pass suffrage laws

2. The Suffrage Movement Reasons for the right to vote:
Middle-class women felt they needed the right to vote to promote the social reforms they favored.
Working-class women felt they needed the right to vote to ensure the passage of labor laws protecting workers.

4. The Suffrage Movement The 19th amendment was ratified August 26, 1920.
Susan B. Anthony’s greatest contributions:
Co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Illegally voted in the Presidential election of 1872.
Founder of the International Council of Women

5. Social Welfare Progressivism
Main Idea: Many Progressives focused on social welfare problems, such as child labor, public health, and prohibition.
Social issues focused on by social welfare progressives included: crime, illiteracy, alcohol abuse, child labor & the health and safety of Americans.

6. Social Welfare Progressivism
In 1900 there were 1.7 million children under 16 working outside the home.
The goal of the National Child Labor Committee was to abolish child labor.
State laws passed the following laws to protect child workers:
Minimum age for employment
Maximum hours children could work
Compulsory (mandatory) education

10. Social Welfare Progressivism
Health and safety codes passed at this time include:
Strict building codes dealing with fire hazards, unsafe machinery and working conditions
Workers’ compensation laws
Zoning laws to protect public
Building codes with standards for light, air, room size, sanitation and fire escapes
Health codes required restaurants and other facilities to maintain clean environments

11. Social Welfare Progressivism
Progressives believed alcohol was responsible for many problems in American life.
Temperance: the moderation or elimination of the use of alcohol
Prohibition: laws banning the manufacturing, sale and consumption of alcohol.

14. Progressives Versus Big Business
Main Idea: Another form of Progressivism focused on federal regulation of big business.
Two regulation ideas of the Progressives included:
Gov’t should break up the companies in order to restore competition
Creation of gov’t agencies to regulate big companies
Socialism: government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole.