Chapter 19 Lesson

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Chapter 19, Sections 3 & 4The Fight for Justice in the Early 1900s


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Section 3: The Rights of WomenThe story of how women finally won the right to vote after

years of conflict


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Key Terms

Suffrage: The right to vote in political elections

19th Amendment: Amendment to the Constitutionpassed in 1920 that gave all women the right to vote

Prohibition: A ban on the sale and consumption ofalcohol

18th Amendment: Amendment to the Constitution

passed in 1917 that enforced prohibition in the U.S.


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Birth of the Suffrage Movement

Without womens suffrage, was America really a democracy?

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

**Primary Sources**


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Women Vote in the West

Why was the West the first place women gained the right tovote?

Wyoming extends suffrage to women (1869) Wyoming admitted to statehood with women voters (1890)


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New Opportunities for Women

First woman to earn a doctoral degree (1877)

1,000 female lawyers and 7,000 female doctors (1900)

Womens clubs (Late 1800s)

National Association of Colored Women (1896)


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Growing Support

Why did the movement grow in the early 1900s?

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)

Illinois extends suffrage to women (1913)


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The Crusade Against Alcohol

What does the passage of the18th Amendment suggestabout womens political

power?

Womens ChristianTemperance Union (1874)

Frances Willard (1839-1898)

Carry Nation (1846-1911)

Passage of 18th Amendment(1917)


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The 19th Amendment

The right of citizens of theUnited States to vote shall not

be denied or abridged by theUnited States or by any Stateon account of sex.

Alice Paul (1885-1977)

Congress passes the 19thAmendment (1919)

Amendment ratified (1920)


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Section 4: Struggles for JusticeAfrican American and immigrant opposition to

discrimination


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Key Terms

Lynching: murder by a mob

Parochial School: private schools sponsored by a church

Anti-Semitism: prejudice against Jews


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Booker T. Washington

Born: 1856, Died: 1915

Born into slavery andtaught himself to read

Founded TuskegeeInstitute (1881)

Believed in gradualimprovement in society

Won support of Carnegie

and Rockefeller

Trusted adviser topresidents on race issues


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W.E.B. Du Bois

Born: 1868, Died: 1963

First African American to

receive Ph.D. from Harvard

Admired Washington, butdisagreed with him

Urged blacks to activelyfight discrimination

Founder of NAACP


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Campaign Against Lynching

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)

Thousands of African Americans were lynched by mobsin the 1890s

Depression of 1893 made matters worse


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Successes and Failures

Woodrow Wilson called segregation a benefit for AfricanAmericans, refusing to listen to protesters

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter andhundreds of other uses for peanuts

Sarah Walker became the first woman to earn over $1million

Black colleges and churches multiplied Du Bois andWashingtons educational successes


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Mexican Americans

Mexican immigrants facedmany of the samesegregation tactics as

African Americans

Barrios: Ethnic MexicanAmerican neighborhoods

Mutualistas: Mutual aidgroups that functioned

like immigrant aidsocieties


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Asian Americans

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 kept out Chinese immigrants, soworkers began coming from the Philippines and Japan

U.S. annexes Hawaii (1898): Japanese farmers moved toCalifornia and turned barren land into successful farms

San Francisco segregates Asian students (1906)

Gentlemens Agreement (1907): New Japanese immigrants arestopped, but wives of existing immigrants could join theirhusbands

California bans non-citizen Asians from land ownership (1913)


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Religious Minorities

Many Roman Catholics and Jewswere coming to America in theimmigration boom

Anti-Catholic American ProtectiveAssociation (1887): Nativist groupthat worked to restrict immigration

Schools lectured against the Popeand instilled prejudices againstCatholics, leading to theestablishment of parochial schools

Jews were lynched for crimes theydidnt commit, much like AfricanAmericans

Anti-Defamation League (1913):Group founded by Jews to promoteunderstanding and fight prejudiceagainst Jews

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