2. Progressive Changes for Women & African Americans
US History Notes
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Progressive Changes for Women & African Americans
Problem Facing America:
Women were treated as less than equal at work as well as home and were the last major group of Americans that were legally denied the right to vote.
Problem Facing America:
African Americans faced discrimination, violence, and a denial of their basic rights following the
Discussion of the problem:
Following the end of the Civil War, African Americans had been granted many rights that had been denied to them during the time of slavery.
This led to…
Despite being granted these rights, African Americans continued to face discrimination. Jim Crow laws [laws that segregated people by race] were common and legal in the United States because of…
Discussion of the problem:
Suffragists Arguments
Anti- Suffragists Arguments
13th Amendment [1865]
Plessy v Ferguson:
Summary of the Case:
14th Amendment [1868]
This Led to
Progressive Solution:
Suffrage:
19th Amendment [1920]
Summary of the Decision:
Easy to understand summary of what it did :
Gave women the right to vote everywhere in the United States.
15th Amendment [1870]
Explain what makes this Amendment Progressive: