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Title: Women and Reform in the Gilded Age


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Women and Reform in the Gilded Age
  • Early 19th Century Reform
  • Temperance
  • Frances Willard and the WCTU
  • The Settlement House Movement
  • Womens Rights Movement

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Time-Line of Early Reform
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Time-Line of Early Reform
  • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers

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Time-Line of Early Reform
  • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers
  • 1840s- Abolitionists

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Time-Line of Early Reform
  • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers
  • 1840s- Abolitionists
  • 1850s- Womens Rights

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Time-Line of Early Reform
  • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers
  • 1840s- Abolitionists
  • 1850s- Womens Rights
  • 1890s- Temperance

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The Temperance Movement
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The Temperance Movement
  • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where
    people were supposed to drink only in moderation

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The Temperance Movement
  • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where
    people were supposed to drink only in moderation
  • When this failed, they tried to convince the
    public to abstain from consuming alcohol

10
The Temperance Movement
  • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where
    people were supposed to drink only in moderation
  • When this failed, they tried to convince the
    public to abstain from consuming alcohol
  • When the abstinence campaign failed, the moved
    toward support of prohibiting the sale of
    alcoholic beverages- prohibition

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The Womens Christian Temperance Union
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The Womens Christian Temperance Union
  • Led by Frances Willard

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The Womens Christian Temperance Union
  • Led by Frances Willard
  • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon
    came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty,
    poor living and working conditions, etc.

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The Womens Christian Temperance Union
  • Led by Frances Willard
  • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon
    came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty,
    poor living and working conditions, etc.
  • Eventually embraced a wide array of social
    reforms to help the working classes

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The Womens Christian Temperance Union
  • Led by Frances Willard
  • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon
    came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty,
    poor living and working conditions, etc.
  • Eventually embraced a wide array of social
    reforms to help the working classes
  • Willard embraced Christian Socialism

16
The Settlement Houses
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The Settlement Houses
  • To help immigrant and working class families
    adjust to urban living

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The Settlement Houses
  • To help immigrant and working class families
    adjust to urban living
  • To provide meaningful employment to the new
    generation of college-education women

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The Settlement Houses
  • To help immigrant and working class families
    adjust to urban living
  • To provide meaningful employment to the new
    generation of college-education women
  • Helped professionalize the social sciences of
    Sociology and Social work through collection of
    statistics, reports, and photographs
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