Women and Progressives

Chapter 22

Section 2

New Roles for Women

• As people moved from farms to cities, lives of women changed
• Children at school
• New household tech
• Women attend college
• Had careers
• 1890-1910 - Women in workforce doubled

The “New Woman”

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• Educated, modern, pursuing interests outside of home
• Jane Addams
• Hull House - Chicago
• Pioneer in social work
• Inspired other women to get involved in public life

Jane Addams

Women Join Forces

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• Women’s clubs grew rapidly
• Clubs for music and painting turned to social problems
• African American women started their own clubs
• Classes
• Recreational activities
• Mary Church Terrell
• National Association of Colored Women
• Orphanages, hospitals

Mary Church Terrell

Women and Voting Rights

• 1848 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls Convention
• American Women’s Rights Movement - voting
• With Susan B. Anthony led 50 year struggle for suffrage
• National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Put pressure on lawmakers
• Marched on D.C.
• Speeches

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Struggle Continues

• Suffragists won victories in some states
• Wanted nationwide vote
• National Woman’s Party - 1916
• Alice Paul
• Protested at White House
• Hunger strike
• President Wilson would eventually support

Alice Paul

The Nineteenth Amendment

• NAWSA more than 2 million members
• Western states were granting women the vote
• 1918 - House passed woman suffrage amendment
• Senate passed
• ¾ states ratified
• 1920 - went into effect

Women and Social Reform

• Women involved in many reform movements
• Libraries, schools, settlement houses, charities, labor, widows, abandoned children, food, medicine
• Women’s labor unions

Temperance

• Women’s Christian Temperance Union WCTU
• 1874 - supported prohibition
• Cited many reasons why alcohol ban would be good
• 1919 - 18th amendment ratified

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