1. Progressive Women

2. College Oberlin College OH- First to allow women to attend –By 1870- 20% was women

3. Skills learned at college put to use in social reform movements

4. Jobs Women entering work force in record numbers –In “caring professions” Reasons for lower pay –Women working were single and supported by dad –Men had to support a family

5. Job Opportunities Female: –Artists –Journalists –Magazines –Typists –Nurses –Secretaries –Teachers

6. Impacts of Jobs and Education Women started to see the world differently and the roles they played in the community and society.

7. Women became backbone of Progressive movement

8. Prohibition!!!!!

10. Ban on making, selling, and distribution of alcohol Believed that alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children.

11. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Headed by Frances Willard Campaigned for alcohol temperance Protestant churches take up cause Saloons source of sin

12. Carry Nation Smashed up saloons with a hatchet in KS Fiery speeches Huge following

13. 18 th Amendment Ratified 1919 Prohibited sale, manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol IMPACT: Rise of organized crime Muscle Cars Automatic guns Bootleggers and Moonshine

14. National Association of Colored Women- 1896 Not welcomed in reform movement –Started own Worked for the same rights

15. Suffrage Seneca Falls Convention- 72 yrs till right to vote Susan B. Anthony- –Leader in Suffrage movement –Forms National Women’s Suffrage Movement 1869- WY 1 st to allow women to vote

16. Anthony in court Arrested for voting Found guilty and fined $100 –Was not allowed to testify –Refused to pay in hopes of appeal –Judge doesn’t force to pay

17. Reasons Against Women Voting Interferes w/women duties at home Liquor feared temperance movement Businesses feared regulations Marriage was a sacred bond and the MAN represented the family Not smart enough No experience

18. National Women’s Suffrage Association In 1890 NWSA merges with NWSA Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton In 1920 women gain right to VOTE!!! Anthony and Stanton both passed away before then.