1. Women and the Progressive Era

2. SLO’s  Identify how women’s achievements during the Progressive Era have improved your quality of life.  Identify how women’s achievements during the Progressive Era have improved our community

3. 1880’s-1920s  Social: 1916 Birth Control  Economic: 1908 Muller v. Oregon  Political: 1919/1920 19 th Amendment

6. Alice understood that securing the right to vote was only the first step. After the 1920 victory, she authored the Equal Rights Amendment and initiated gender equality in both the United Nations Charter and in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After the 1920 victory, she authored the Equal Rights Amendment and initiated gender equality in both the United Nations Charter and in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

8.  in 1916 Rankin decided to run for Congress.  Rankin campaigned for universal suffrage, prohibition, child welfare reform, an end to child labor  Peace Activist

11.  1916, Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn  1921 the American Birth Control League.  1923 the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau  1929 National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control  1936 the U.S. Court of Appeals

13.  1884 Segregation Case Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company  1889 Anti-lynching Crusade  1909 Founding Member of NAACP

15.  1911 Society of American Indians secretary & effective spokespersons in its drive to promote Indian welfare.  1928 Meriam Report  1926 founded the National Council of American Indians

18.  1883 International Working People's Association (IWPA)  organized the 1886, May 1st official movement for the eight hour day  1907-1920 organized against hunger and unemployment  February 12, 1915 Chicago Hunger Demonstrations with the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and Jane Addam's Hull House resulted in government decentralization of hunger and unemployment policy planning.

20.  As 20% of the Japanese sugar workforce,  Japanese women participated in the 1920 sugar strike in large numbers.  The Japanese Federation of Labor initially included paid maternity leave ( 2 weeks prior & 6 weeks post-partum) as a strike demand.  The key issue in the 1920 strike, the demand for higher wages, was based on the need to provide for workers' families.