Women Win New Rights

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Women Win New Rights

• The Progressive Era
• (1890-1920)
• Chapter 22, Section 3

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Essential Questions

• What are the measures that you would take to
  change something that is wrong?

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Lillian Wald

• Founded the 1st Ever Visiting Nurse Program
• Founded the Henry Street Settlement in NYC
• Program Helped Poor Women and Children

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Technology Changing Womens Work

• New Inventions, Factories Technology Created
  Products that Made Life Easier
• Women Now Had More Free Time
• Could Get a Job Outside the Home
• Women Had Fewer Children (Smaller Families)

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Jobs Offered to Women in the Early 1900s

• Factory Jobs
• Secretaries
• Jobs in Stores
• Telephone Operators
• Store Clerks
• Typists
• Teachers
• Nurses
• Women Were Expected to Quit Their Jobs When They
  Got Hitched!!!

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Jane Addams Inspiration

• Jane Addams was Very Wealthy a College Graduate
• Visited Settlement Houses in London Slums that
  Assisted the Poor
• Started the Hull House in Chicago w/her Friend
  Ellen Star
• Got Wealthy Citizens to Donate to Rent Out a
  Mansion to Create the Hull House

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The Hull House
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Settlement Houses

• Settlement Houses Helped the Poor By
• Provided Information for Immigrants
• Helped Unemployed Find Jobs
• Offered Kindergarten
• Offered Day Care
• Had After School Youth Clubs
• Nutrition Classes
• Concert Programs
• Taught English Classes to Immigrants

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Jane Addams Beliefs of the Role of Settlement
Houses

• One function of the settlement to its
  neighborhood somewhat resembles that of the big
  brother, whose mere presence in the playground
  protects the little ones from bullies.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Fought for Womens Rights
• Wanted Women to Leave the Home and Start Careers
  (Get Jobs)
• Wrote Women and Economics, The Home, Concerning
  Children
• Wanted to Create Professional Day Care Programs
  so Women Can Go to Work!

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Carrie Nation

• Fought for Prohibition
• Was Married to an Abusive Alcoholic
• Used a Hatchet to Smash Alcohol in Saloons (Bars)
• Fought for the Passage of the 18th Amendment

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18th Amendment Again?

• Known as Prohibition
• Outlawed the Manufacturing, Sale the
  Consumption of ALCOHOL!!!
• Many Believed Alcohol Caused Poverty,
  Unemployment Violence!!!

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National American WomanSuffrage Association
(NAWSA)

• Fought for Womans Suffrage
• Suffrage is the Right to Vote
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the 1st President of
  NAWSA

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Susan B. Anthony

• 2nd President of N.A.W.S.A.
• Was Arrested for Voting in 1873 (Dressed Up as a
  Man and Voted)
• HUGE Activist For The 19th Amendment

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Susan B. Anthony Role Play
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1st Four States to Allow Women to Vote

• Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado
• Why were States in the West the 1st States to
  Give Women the Right to Vote?

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• President of N.A.W.S.A. During WWI (1914-1918)
• Argued that U.S. Could NOT Win WWI if it Wasnt
  for Women Working in Factories and Selling War
  Bonds
• President Woodrow Wilson Agreed!!!

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The 19th Amendment!
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19th Amendment (1919)Womens Right to Vote!!!
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Show 19th Amendment DBQ!!!
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• 1st Womens Rights Convention Ever!!!
• Took Place _at_ Seneca Falls, NY (Right Outside
  Albany) 1848
• Frederick Douglass was a Guest Speaker

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Frederick Douglass

• Former African American Slave
• Fought for Abolition
• Guest Speaker at the Seneca Falls Convention
  (1848)