1. Women and Reform in the Gilded Age Early 19th Century Reform Temperance Frances Willard and the WCTU The Settlement House Movement Women’s Rights Movement

2. Time-Line of Early Reform

3. 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers

4. Time-Line of Early Reform 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers 1840s- Abolitionists

5. Time-Line of Early Reform 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers 1840s- Abolitionists 1850s- Women’s Rights

6. Time-Line of Early Reform 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers 1840s- Abolitionists 1850s- Women’s Rights 1890s- Temperance

7. The Temperance Movement

8. Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation

9. The Temperance Movement Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation When this failed, they tried to convince the public to abstain from consuming alcohol

10. The Temperance Movement Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation When this failed, they tried to convince the public to abstain from consuming alcohol When the abstinence campaign failed, the moved toward support of prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages- prohibition

11. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union

12. Led by Frances Willard

13. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Led by Frances Willard First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc.

14. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Led by Frances Willard First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc. Eventually embraced a wide array of social reforms to help the working classes

15. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Led by Frances Willard First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc. Eventually embraced a wide array of social reforms to help the working classes Willard embraced Christian Socialism

16. The Settlement Houses

17. To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living

18. The Settlement Houses To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living To provide meaningful employment to the new generation of college-education women

19. The Settlement Houses To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living To provide meaningful employment to the new generation of college-education women Helped professionalize the social sciences of Sociology and Social work through collection of statistics, reports, and photographs