U.S. History I
Chapter 8 Section 2
“Women Make Progress”
2.2, 3.8, 3.9
Clockwise from to left: Temperance/Prohibition Cartoon,
Women’s Suffrage, Ida B. Wells Anti-lynching, Alice Paul
And Women’s Suffrage
Women Make Progress
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Women denied many opportunities
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Florence Kelley: Disliked overpriced goods
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National Consumers League: Favored
Gov’t regulation of business
Temperance Movement: Wanted to ban
alcohol (18th Amendment)
Margaret Sanger: Thought that having
“too many” children was harming women’s
health
Ida B. Wells: National Assoc. of Colored
Women (NACW)
Women Fight for the Right to Vote
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Suffrage: Right to vote
Carrie Chapman Catt
(Bottom Left) National
American Woman
Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)
Alice Paul: National
Woman’s Party (NWP):
More radical group
Nineteenth Amendment:
1920: Women’s Suffrage
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Women against Suffrage
“National Assoc. Opposed
to Women’s Suffrage”
-Believed that voting
would take women’s
attention away from
family
Muller v. Oregon: Woman
work hours could be
limited (10/Day) because
long hours would harm
their families
*Progressive victory that
was used by business to
pay women less than
men for same work
U.S. History I
Chapter 8 Section 3
“The Struggle Against Discrimination”
3.6, 3.8, 9.1
From Left: Anti-Catholic Cartoon, Anti-Jewish
Announcement, and Anti-Immigrant Cartoon
Progressivism Creates
Contradictions
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Americanization: Task of making
immigrants act “like Americans”
Make immigrants “loyal” to United States
Many progressives still were “racist”
against non-whites or native born people
Plessy v. Ferguson: “Separate but Equal”
case. Legalized racial segregation (Jim
Crow)
African Americans Demand Reform
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Booker T. Washington
(Left)
Move slowly progress
Focus on education
Would eventually be
accepted by society
“Atlanta Compromise”
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W.E.B. Dubois (Right)
Demanded immediate
rights
Niagra Movement:
1905
African Americans
should be taught:
History, Literature,
and Philosophy…not
just trade skills. So
blacks can “think for
themselves”
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
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“Physically free from
Peonage (Forced-low-paid
Labor), mentally free
from ignorance, politically
free from
disfranchisement, and
socially free from insult.”
Formed after a lynch mob
riot in Springfield, IL in
1908
Leadership featured both
black AND white
progressives
Urban League: Focused on
poor city workers
Reducing Prejudice and Protecting
Rights
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Anti-Defamation League: Formed by Jewish
immigrants who were mistreated
Mutualistas: Mexican American groups that gave
loans and legal assistance to Mexican
Immigrants/Citizens
Dawes Act: Broke up Native American
Reservatons
Carlos Montezuma: Fought to preserve Native
American Culture
Takao Ozawa: Fought for Asian American Rights