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WOMEN AND PROGRESSIVES SEC. 21-2 PAGES 615-619 Define: Suffragist –19 th Amendment - Prohibition – 18 th Amendment Identify: Jane Addams – Mother Cabrini.

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1 WOMEN AND PROGRESSIVES SEC. 21-2 PAGES 615-619 Define: Suffragist –19 th Amendment - Prohibition – 18 th Amendment Identify: Jane Addams – Mother Cabrini – Elizabeth Stanton – Susan Anthony – Carrie Catt – Alice Paul - Carry Nation – Women’s Christian Temperance Union

2 WOMEN’S ROLES CHANGE Middle class- less responsibilities at home – more free time – better educated – professionals Pursued interests outside of home – writers, speakers, fund-raisers, reformers Joined social clubs – cultural activities (music, painting, drama, ) Jane Addams – settlement house in Chicago

3 SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT Suffragist – men/women who fought for women’s right to vote (suffrage) Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Susan B. Anthony – founded National Woman Suffrage Assoc. Called for constitutional amendment allowing women to vote in national elections. Led by Anna Shaw and Carrie Catt – gained 2 million members Wyoming – first state to allow women the right to vote

4 SUMMARIZE List several roles women began to take in the Progressive time. What is Jane Addams well-known for in this time period? Vocab term that means – men/women who fought for women’s right to vote. What 2 women were advocates for the above? What state allowed women the right to vote ?

5 FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE Alice Paul (visited Britain – saw protest marches- hunger strikes used) met with Pres. Wilson in 1917. Led women protestors in front of White house – arrested- started hunger strike. By 1919 - Senate passed 19 th Amendment – allowed women right to vote 1920 – Ratified – first election women voted for president.

6 WOMEN & SOCIAL REFORM 1912- Children’s Bureau in the Labor Dept – protect children Worked to improve lives of working class – libraries – settlement houses - charities Challenged business interests – sponsored laws on labor of women/children – gov’t inspections Improve food and medicines – provide pensions for women –

7 PROHIBITION MOVEMENT Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) – stop drinking – “Prohibition” - passing of laws to prohibit making/selling of alcohol Led by Frances Willard – linked alcohol abuse to violence – poverty – unemployment Also supported prison reform, world peace Carry Nation – used ax to break up bottles/kegs in saloons 1919 – 18 th Amendment – illegal to make, transport, sell alcohol in US

8 SUMMARIZE What idea from Britain did Alice Paul being back and use? Which president did she try to meet and convince to allow women the right to vote? What amendment gave women the right to vote? When? What vocab term means to stop making alcohol? Who led the attack on saloons against alcohol? Which amendment made it illegal to make, sell, transport alcohol?


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