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Women and Progressives

Chapter 22

Section 2

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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

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The “New Woman”

  • 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

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Women Join Forces

  • 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Temperance

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