Women's Suffrage Movement

What happened by the early 1900s?

A growing number of middle-class women wanted to do more than stay at home as wives and mothers.

What did colleges like Pennsylvania's Bryn Mar and New York's School of Social Work do?

They armed middle-class women with education and modern ideas.

Did most poor women continue to labor long hours?

Yes, they also often worked under dangerous or dirty conditions.

Did progressive reforms address working women's conditions

Yes, women worked long hours in factories and sweatshops or as maids, laundresses or servants. Women were also paid less and often didn't get to keep their wages. They were intimidated and bullied by employers.

What did Florence Kelley found in 1899?

The Women's Trade Union League which worked for a federal minimum wage and a national 8 hour workday.

WTUL

Women's Trade Union League. This created the first workers' strike fund, which helped support families who refused to work in unsafe or unfair conditions. This union grew steadily until the passage of the 18th amendment.

Temperance Movement

An organized campaign by Progressives. They felt that alcohol often led men to spend their earnings on liquor, neglect their families, and abuse their wives.

18th Amendment (1919

Banned the sale and production of alcohol.

What did Margaret Sanger do in 1916?

She opened the first birth control clinic.

Why was Margaret Sanger jailed?

For providing family planning information.

What organization did Margaret Sanger found?

American Birth Control League.

Did African Americans also work for women's rights?

Yes

Ida B. Wells

African American woman who founded the National Association of Colored Women or NACW in 1896. The NACW supported day care centers for the children of working parents. Wells also worked for suffrage, to end lynchings and to stop segregation in the Chicago schools.

Suffrage

Seen as the only way to ensure that government protected children, fostered education, and support family life.

Who worked relentlessly for women's suffrage since the 1860s?

Susan B. Antony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By the 1890s, which 2 states allowed women to vote?

Wyoming and Colorado

National Woman's Party (1917)

Social activists led by Alice Paul formed this organization. Their radical actions made the suffrage movement's goals seem less dramatic by comparison. The NWP picketed the White House. Hundreds of suffragettes were arrested and jailed.

Who was Carrie Chapman Catt?

President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

What strategy did Carrie Chapman Catt promote for suffrage?

A two-part strategy: lobbying Congress for a constitutional amendment and using the referendum process to pass state laws