1. Women Make Progress Essential Question:
How did women of the Progressive Era make progress and win the right to vote?

2. Traits of Progressive Women
Educated
empowered

3. Issues Women Faced No voting rights Gave wages to husband
Dangerous, long work

4. Reforms! Muller v. Oregon—10 hour workday for women
Business men used this as an excuse to pay women less
National Consumers League—led by Florence Kelley
Gave labels to goods produced fairly, safely and in a healthy environment
Result: people only bought these items
Pushed for laws for meat packing plants, safer work places and unemployment benefits

5. Reforms con’t Family Life
Temperance movement led by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Leads to 18th Amendment: outlaws production and sale of alcohol
Birth Control clinic—Margaret Sanger
Believed less children will result in a better quality of life
Founded the American Birth Control League
Ida B. Wells—set up day-cares to promote and educate black children while parents were at work

6. Reforms con’t Suffrage
1890s: National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWS)
President: Carrie Chapman Catt
2 part plan for gaining suffrage
Lobby Congress
Use referendum process in states

7. Reforms con’t
People who supported suffrage were called suffragettes
1917: National Women’s Party—used protest marches; led by Alice Paul
Opposition to suffrage:
National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage (NAOWS)
Thought suffrage would take away from woman’s family and volunteer work
1920: 19TH AMENDMENT PASSES! WOMEN ARE OFFICIALLY ABLE TO VOTE NATIONWIDE!