1. Suffrage and Reform Campaigns
Progressive Women
Suffrage and Reform Campaigns

2. Today’s Objective After today’s lesson, students will be able to…
Discuss the reforms movements of progressive women
Explain the process of women’s suffrage and the associated fears felt by anti-suffragists
Essential Skill:
Explicitly assess information and draw conclusions

3. Gender Stereotypes What are the stereotypes of women and men?
Write them on the board!
Be prepared to discuss

4. Women’s Movement Educated, Middle-Class Women
Formed a “Grass Roots” Movement
Lobbied Legislators, Held Rallies and Parades, Distributed Literature

5. Reform Campaigns SUFFRAGE Child labor Working conditions Poverty
Civil rights
Temperance (Prohibition)
Education
Abortion/birth control
SUFFRAGE

6. Struggle for Suffrage
Organized movement started in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY
Disrupted by Civil War
Divided over support for 15th Amendment

7. Early Leaders Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Founder and president of National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Important member of NWSA
“Women deserve to vote because they are equal in all capacities to men
Difference between National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)?

8. Voting Out West

9. NAWSA National American Woman Suffrage Association Carrie Chapman Catt
Merger of NWSA and AWSA
Largest organization working form women’s suffrage
Carrie Chapman Catt
Assumed presidency in 1900
Focused on women’s “unique role”
Developed “Winning Plan”
Grassroots effort with many state rallies
Supported by white, native-born, middle-class women

10. Alice Paul Leader of the National Women’s Party (NWP)
Established due to disagreements with NAWSA
NWP pushed more for constitutional amendment
Influenced by more militant suffragettes in Britain
Intended to shame President Wilson in any way possible for not allowing women to vote
Picketing outside of White House

12. Anti-Suffragists
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS)
What were the arguments?

14. Josephine Dodge
President of NAOWS

15. 19th Amendment Ratified in 1920
“Right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex”

16. Other early 20th Century Reformers
Margaret Sanger- crusade for birth control
Florence Kelly- child labor protection, National Consumer’s League
Carrie Nation- Temperance movement to ban alcohol- Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organized in 1874

17. Other early 20th Century Reformers
Jane Addams – Settlement House
Ida B. Wells-Barnett—anti-lynching
Charlotte Perkins Gillman – economics; women’s discrimination is due to inequality in the workplace

18. Concluding Discussion
How equal is the workplace today?
What are some solutions to help women in the workplace?
Should women be allowed to participate in all jobs that men participate?
Are men or women better at certain domestic tasks?