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Progressive Women
Suffrage and Reform Campaigns
Today’s Objective
After today’s lesson, students will be able to… Discuss the reforms movements of progressive women Explain the process of women’s suffrage and the
associated fears felt by anti-suffragists
Essential Skill: Explicitly assess information and draw conclusions
Gender Stereotypes
What are the stereotypes of women and men?
Write them on the board!
Be prepared to discuss
Women’s Movement
Educated, Middle-Class Women Formed a “Grass Roots”
Movement Lobbied Legislators, Held Rallies
and Parades, Distributed Literature
Reform Campaigns
Child labor
Working conditions
Poverty
Civil rights
Temperance (Prohibition)
Education
Abortion/birth control
SUFFRAGE
Struggle for Suffrage
Organized movement started in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY
Disrupted by Civil War Divided over support for 15th
Amendment
Early Leaders
Susan B. Anthony Founder and president of National Woman Suffrage Association
(NWSA)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Important member of NWSA
“Women deserve to vote because they are equal in all capacities to men
Difference between National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)?
Voting Out West
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association Merger of NWSA and AWSA
Largest organization working form women’s suffrage
Carrie Chapman Catt Assumed presidency in 1900
Focused on women’s “unique role”
Developed “Winning Plan” Grassroots effort with many state rallies
Supported by white, native-born, middle-class women
Alice Paul Leader of the National Women’s Party (NWP)
Established due to disagreements with NAWSA
NWP pushed more for constitutional amendment
Influenced by more militant suffragettes in Britain
Intended to shame President Wilson in any way possible for not allowing women to vote Picketing outside of White House
Anti-Suffragists
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS)
What were the arguments?
Josephine Dodge President of NAOWS
19th Amendment
Ratified in 1920
“Right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex”
Other early 20th Century Reformers Margaret Sanger- crusade for birth control
Florence Kelly- child labor protection, National Consumer’s League
Carrie Nation- Temperance movement to ban alcohol- Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) organized in 1874
Other early 20th Century Reformers Jane Addams – Settlement House
Ida B. Wells-Barnett—anti-lynching
Charlotte Perkins Gillman – economics; women’s discrimination is due to inequality in the workplace
Concluding Discussion
How equal is the workplace today?
What are some solutions to help women in the workplace?
Should women be allowed to participate in all jobs that men participate?
Are men or women better at certain domestic tasks?
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