Women's Suffrage and Societal Reform

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Site of the first modern women's rights convention, and the start of the organized fight for women's rights in US history.

Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

Document based on the Declaration of Independence that called for gender equality, written primarily by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and signed by Seneca Falls Convention delegates.

National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA)

Group set up in 1869 to work for a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote
-> members include Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)

focused on winning the right to vote for women state by state.
-> members include Lucy Stone and Julia Wood

National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

in 1890, the NWSA and the AWSA merged into one suffrage organization

National Women's Party (NWP)

founded by Alice Paul, used more aggressive techniques to get women's voices heard such as protests, hunger strikes, picketing and parades

The 19th Amendment (1920)

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.

Prohibition

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

A group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol and who worked to get laws passed against alcohol.

Anti-Saloon League (1893)

U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence. Headed by Wayne Wheeler

Compulsory Education

the requirement that children attend school up to a certain age. made to prevent child labor

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

(1911) 146 women killed while locked into the burning building (brought attention to poor working conditions)