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Objectives
• Describe how women won the right to vote.
• Identify the new opportunities that women
gained during the Progressive Era.
• Explain how the temperance movement gained
strength during the early 1900s.
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Terms and People
• Carrie Chapman Catt – leader of the women’s
movement who devised a strategy to win
suffrage
• suffragist – people who worked for women’s
right to vote
• Alice Paul – suffragist who worked for a
constitutional amendment guaranteeing women
the right to vote
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Terms and People (continued)
• Frances Willard – president of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union
• prohibition – a ban on the sale and
consumption of alcohol
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How did women gain new rights?
At the turn of the century, women gained new
rights by laboring in fields and factories,
working as reformers, and petitioning the
government for equality.
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Women continued to struggle for equality in
the professional world.
Slowly, more
and more
women gained
the advanced
degrees needed
to enter a
profession.
By 1900,
there
were:
• 1,000 women lawyers
• 7,000 women doctors
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Women made important contributions as reformers,
tackling many difficult issues of the day.
• Raised money for libraries, schools, and parks
• Demanded pure food and drugs
• Pressed for laws protecting women and children
• Boycotted goods produced by children
• Investigated conditions in sweatshops
• Worked to end segregation and violence against
African Americans
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Many women
took a leading
role in the
temperance
movement,
favoring
prohibition.
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Frances Willard, the president of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union, called for states to
ban the sale of alcohol.
Carrie Nation took
more violent
actions, storming
into saloons and
smashing liquor
bottles.
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In 1917, Congress passed the Eighteenth
Amendment, enforcing prohibition.
Eighteenth
Amendment
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• The amendment was
ratified by the states
in 1919.
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By far, however, the most important goal of
women reformers was women’s suffrage.
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 marked the
start of an organized women’s movement, which
continued after the Civil War.
National Woman
Suffrage Association
• Founded by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony in 1869
• Pushed for a constitutional
amendment giving women
the right to vote
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In the West, where women worked alongside men,
women won the right to vote before 1900.
As more and more
women began to work
outside the home,
support for women’s
suffrage grew across
the nation.
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Though some women could vote in state and local
elections, many still could not vote in federal
elections.
Calls continued
for an
amendment
allowing women
in all the states
to vote in all
elections.
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Most politicians,
however, opposed
women’s suffrage.
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In the early 1900s, a new generation of
suffragists such as Carrie Chapman Catt took
up the campaign to win the vote.
She and her supporters devised a plan to win
suffrage state by state.
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One by one, states in the West and Midwest gave
women the right to vote.
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The suffragist Alice Paul took her protests to the
White House.
President Wilson
eventually pledged
his support.
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Finally, in 1919, Congress passed the
Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing
women the right to vote.
Nineteenth
Amendment
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• The amendment was
ratified by the states
in 1920.
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The Nineteenth Amendment doubled the number of
eligible voters.
Some people
saw women’s
suffrage as the
final victory,
while others saw
it as one step on
the road to full
equality.
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