Progressive Women

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Progressive Women
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College

• Oberlin College OH- First to allow women to
  attend
• By 1870- 20 was women

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• Skills learned at college put to use in social
  reform movements

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Jobs

• Women entering work force in record numbers
• In caring professions
• Reasons for lower pay
• Women working were single and supported by dad
• Men had to support a family

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Job Opportunities

• Female
• Artists
• Journalists
• Magazines
• Typists
• Nurses
• Secretaries
• Teachers

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Impacts of Jobs and Education

• Women started to see the world differently and
  the roles they played in the community and
  society.

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• Women became backbone of Progressive movement

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Prohibition!!!!!
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• Ban on making, selling, and distribution of
  alcohol
• Believed that alcohol was often responsible for
  crime, poverty, and violence against women and
  children.

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Womans Christian Temperance Union

• Headed by Frances Willard
• Campaigned for alcohol temperance
• Protestant churches take up cause
• Saloons source of sin

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Carry Nation

• Smashed up saloons with a hatchet in KS
• Fiery speeches
• Huge following

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18th Amendment

• Ratified 1919
• Prohibited sale, manufacturing, and distribution
  of alcohol
• IMPACT
• Rise of organized crime
• Muscle Cars
• Automatic guns
• Bootleggers and Moonshine

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National Association of Colored Women- 1896

• Not welcomed in reform movement
• Started own
• Worked for the same rights

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Suffrage

• Seneca Falls Convention- 72 yrs till right to
  vote
• Susan B. Anthony-
• Leader in Suffrage movement
• Forms National Womens Suffrage Movement
• 1869- WY 1st to allow women to vote

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Anthony in court

• Arrested for voting
• Found guilty and fined 100
• Was not allowed to testify
• Refused to pay in hopes of appeal
• Judge doesnt force to pay

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Reasons Against Women Voting

• Interferes w/women duties at home
• Liquor feared temperance movement
• Businesses feared regulations
• Marriage was a sacred bond and the MAN
  represented the family
• Not smart enough
• No experience

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National Womens Suffrage Association

• In 1890 NWSA merges with NWSA
• Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• In 1920 women gain right to VOTE!!!
• Anthony and Stanton both passed away before then.