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Progressive Women Why then?. Essential Questions Why did women begin to play an increasing role in reform movements? Who were some of these reformers?

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1 Progressive Women Why then?

2 Essential Questions Why did women begin to play an increasing role in reform movements? Who were some of these reformers? What causes did they champion?

3 As you listen… Think about what is striking about the women’s strategies?

4 Gilded Age Women Gain a Voice 2 nd class Citiz.=No reputation to defend Urbanization = Collective work More Education=Articles and Books Factory Work = Independence World War I=Independence, New image

5 Quote Analysis Read your quote. Identify the cause. Who would oppose the cause and why?

6 Social Reformers Jane Addams Julia Lathrop Margaret Sanger

7 Muckrakers Ida Tarbell Frances Kellor Out of Work

8 Economic Reformers Florence Kelley (National Consumers League) Mother Mary Harris Jones Josephine Goldmark (WTUL) Power to boycott companies

9 Suffragists Alice Paul Francis Willard Carrie Chapman Catt Parades Pickets Protests State Laws Legal Challenges Constitutional Amendments

10 Reforms Political -initiative -recall -19 th Amendment -direct election of senators Social -temperance -housing -education Economic -WTUL (1903) -Child-labor laws -working hours -working wages

11 Essential Questions Why did women begin to play an increasing role in reform movements? Who were some of these reformers? What causes did they champion?

12 What was Progressivism? What were the goals? How was this era a change from the past? What areas experienced fairly radical change? What group of Americans did not?


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