1. U.S. History I Chapter 8 Section 2 “Women Make Progress” 2.2, 3.8, 3.9
Clockwise from to left: Temperance/Prohibition Cartoon,
Women’s Suffrage, Ida B. Wells Anti-lynching, Alice Paul
And Women’s Suffrage

2. Women Make Progress Women denied many opportunities
Florence Kelley: Disliked overpriced goods
National Consumers League: Favored Gov’t regulation of business
Temperance Movement: Wanted to ban alcohol (18th Amendment)
Margaret Sanger: Thought that having “too many” children was harming women’s health
Ida B. Wells: National Assoc. of Colored Women (NACW)

3. Women Fight for the Right to Vote
Suffrage: Right to vote
Carrie Chapman Catt (Bottom Left) National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)
Alice Paul: National Woman’s Party (NWP): More radical group
Nineteenth Amendment: 1920: Women’s Suffrage
Women against Suffrage
“National Assoc. Opposed to Women’s Suffrage”
-Believed that voting would take women’s attention away from family
Muller v. Oregon: Woman work hours could be limited (10/Day) because long hours would harm their families
*Progressive victory that was used by business to pay women less than men for same work

4. “The Struggle Against Discrimination”
U.S. History I
Chapter 8 Section 3
“The Struggle Against Discrimination”
3.6, 3.8, 9.1
From Left: Anti-Catholic Cartoon, Anti-Jewish Announcement, and Anti-Immigrant Cartoon

5. Progressivism Creates Contradictions
Americanization: Task of making immigrants act “like Americans”
Make immigrants “loyal” to United States
Many progressives still were “racist” against non-whites or native born people
Plessy v. Ferguson: “Separate but Equal” case. Legalized racial segregation (Jim Crow)

6. African Americans Demand Reform
W.E.B. Dubois (Right)
Demanded immediate rights
Niagra Movement: 1905
African Americans should be taught: History, Literature, and Philosophy…not just trade skills. So blacks can “think for themselves”
Booker T. Washington (Left)
Move slowly progress
Focus on education
Would eventually be accepted by society
“Atlanta Compromise”

7. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
“Physically free from Peonage (Forced-low-paid Labor), mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement, and socially free from insult.”
Formed after a lynch mob riot in Springfield, IL in 1908
Leadership featured both black AND white progressives
Urban League: Focused on poor city workers

8. Reducing Prejudice and Protecting Rights
Anti-Defamation League: Formed by Jewish immigrants who were mistreated
Mutualistas: Mexican American groups that gave loans and legal assistance to Mexican Immigrants/Citizens
Dawes Act: Broke up Native American Reservatons
Carlos Montezuma: Fought to preserve Native American Culture
Takao Ozawa: Fought for Asian American Rights