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Women’s Progressive Reforms

Women’s Progressive Reforms. Temperance, Suffrage, and Settlement Houses. Temperance. Temperance: moderation or elimination of drinking alcohol Aimed primarily at laboring-class men Believed alcohol was responsible for a majority of the problems of the working class

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Women’s Progressive Reforms

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  1. Women’s Progressive Reforms Temperance, Suffrage, and Settlement Houses

  2. Temperance • Temperance: moderation or elimination of drinking alcohol • Aimed primarily at laboring-class men • Believed alcohol was responsible for a majority of the problems of the working class • Extension of the settlement house movement

  3. Temperance Becomes Prohibition • Urging people to give up alcohol proved unpopular and difficult • Began advocating local legislation banning alcohol but soon turned to national level • Prohibition: ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol • 18th Amendment passed in 1919 (repealed in 1933) Trivia: The Ku Klux Klan supported Prohibition!

  4. The Right to Vote • Suffrage: the right to vote • Belief that women’s vote would reform government • Movement grew alongside abolition • Many of the same activists • Used skills learned in abolition crusade • Intensified after 14th & 15th Amendments passed • Argued that white women’s votes would counter black men’s • Worked longer for women’s suffrage than any other reform

  5. Winning Suffrage • 1890: Formation of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • Original strategy was to win state by state • When U.S. entered World War I to make the world “safe for democracy,” it seemed a little odd for American women not to have the vote • 1920: 19th Amendment passed Trivia: Suffragists began the practice of protesting directly outside the White House.

  6. Famous Suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton Alice Paul Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt

  7. Settlement Houses • Community centers in immigrant neighborhoods • English classes • Day care for working mothers • Raise awareness of political issues • Most had religious sponsorship • Most famous was Hull House in Chicago • Jane Addams • Movement peaked around World War I

  8. Why are these Progressive movements? Temperance Women’s Suffrage Increased people’s involvement in government Goal is to reform the electorate Women purer, more moral Constitutional Amendment Settlement Houses • Increased government regulation • Goal is to protect the people from themselves & one another • Constitutional Amendment • Increased people’s involvement in government • Goal is to make life better for working classes • Reliance on experts

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