1. Friday, 5/01 What rights might women want at the turn-of-the-century?
How might women make the American public listen and take note?
Make sure your note sheet and note cards are out!

2. Women’s Rights Issues to be Addressed
On Your Notesheet #5
Women’s Rights Issues to be Addressed
Owning Property
Divorce
Clothing (corsets)
Access to Birth Control (Margaret Sanger)
Suffrage - voting Our focus of study!

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
First president of a new women’s rights organization - National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Part of the early Women’s Rights Movement.
Born 1815 Died 1902

4. School House Rock – “Sufferin' Till Suffrage” A good overview

5. What differences between these women do you notice or can assume?

6. Women’s Reform Leaders
Alice Paul – radical activist who worked towards gaining suffrage for women. Part of “new generation.”
Her work directly leads to the passage of the 19th Amendment (1920)
Born 1885 Died 1977

7. Alice Paul describes her disruption of Lord Mayor's banquet and subsequent force feeding after hunger strike in Holloway jail. She refused to wear prison clothes or to work, so spent the month in bed
Alice Paul describes her work in the British suffrage movement during She disrupted the Lord Mayor's banquet and was force fed after a hunger strike in jail. She refused to wear prison clothes or work.
She returned to the United States and in 1917 was arrested and sent to a work house in Virginia (like a women’s prison)
Alice Paul describes her disruption of Lord Mayor's banquet and subsequent force feeding after hunger strike in Holloway jail. She refused to wear prison clothes or to work, so spent the month in bed

8. Images of Alice Paul’s Force Feeding

9. From Mary Poppins “Sister Suffragette”

10. End here on Friday, 5/01

11. Why might the American government be interested in preserving land?
Monday, 5/04
Why might the American government be interested in preserving land?

12. Theodore Roosevelt
“We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The mineral wealth of the country, the coal, iron, oil, gas, and the like does not reproduce itself, and therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately; and wastefulness in dealing with it today means that our descendants will feel the exhaustion a generation or two before they otherwise would.” (1907)
During his administration he set aside 148 million acres of national forest lands and withdrew from public sale 80 million acres of mineral lands!
Influenced by John Muir - naturalist

13. On Your Notesheet #6 Environment
Concerns Conservation of the Land and Preservation of the land.
John Muir ( ), Sierra Club Founder and known as the “Father of Our National Parks”
Inspired T. Roosevelt’s programs such as the Antiquities Act (1906) and setting aside more forest land under the US Forest Service (1891)

14. Yosemite National Park

15. Environment, cont. National Park Service
Established under Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency in 1916.

16. Yellowstone National Park (L-R: Yellowstone Falls, Morning Glory Thermal Pool, and Mammoth Hot Springs)

17. Notesheet #7 (Early) African American Civil Rights
African Americans were still fighting for basic rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution

18. Three Reminders of the Problems African Americans Faced
Voter Restrictions
Poll Tax – Pay a fee to vote
Literacy Test – prove you could read & write to vote
Grandfather Clause – exempts a group of people from obeying a law provided they met certain conditions before law was passed

19. Reminder of the Problems African Americans Faced
Jim Crow Laws – System of laws that segregated public services by race

20. Reminder of the Problems African Americans Faced
Plessy v. Ferguson – “Separate but Equal” (1896)
Supreme Court ruled against Homer Plessy saying segregation was legal as long as separate facilities were equal

21. Additional Problems Faced by African Americans
Lynching – mob’s illegal seizure & execution of a person, usually by hanging

22. African American Leaders
Who are they? What are their philosophies?
Let’s find out . . .

24. African American Leaders
Booker T. Washington – encouraged African Americans to become educated & learn a trade
Established Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Wanted to work slowly and diligently towards rights – nothing radical

25. African American Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois – encouraged Top 10% of African Americans to attend college & become leaders
Was more aggressive than Washington in his reform work
One of the founders of the N.A.A.C.P.

26. African American Leaders
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Worked through courts to gain equal rights for African Am.

28. How Reformers Met Goals
Key leaders worked to change the attitude Americans.
NAACP worked through the courts to gain equal rights for African Americans
It is a slow process. . .
This is only the beginning!

29. Answer the following question with details on your closer paper.
Closer Mon., 5/04
Answer the following question with details on your closer paper.
In your opinion who was the more effective leader African American leader: Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois? Why?

30. Unit Test Information No extra time given unless entitled w/ documentation
38 Matching/Multiple Choice (computer form)
2 Extended Response (drawn from notes) - Give the problem, note the category, provide a detailed explanation of the problem (how fought and fixed)
3 Identification – NOT LINKING TERMS – Looking for detailed definitions
10 True/False w/ corrections as needed (one word or short phrase)

32. Our Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt
Led the fight to dissolve 40 monopolies as a “trust buster."
“Square Deal" promised a fair shake for the average citizen, including:
regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs.
promotion of the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources.

33. Our Progressive Presidents
William Howard Taft
initiated 80 antitrust suits
Under his leadership, Congress submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators.
the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates.
Displeased many liberal Republicans by supporting high tariffs

34. 1912 Election

35. Our Progressive Presidents
Woodrow Wilson
Anti-trust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.
Laws prohibiting child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day.
Lowered Tariffs: reduced prices on goods for the lower class