Women And The Progressive Era

Working Women’s Hardships Working outside home. Long Hours Dangerous Wages go to men in the house Worked in Cigar or clothing factories or as laundresses or servants. Cheated and bullied by employers. NO VOTING!!!!!!!

Women’s Suffrage Pioneers: Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) Fought for a minimum wage and 8 hour workday. 1st workers strike fund.

CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE Ida B. Wells Temperance Movement Promoted by WCTU. Practice of never drinking alcohol. Caused problems with men. Led to 18th Amendment. (prohibition) Ida B. Wells *National Association of Colored Women *Day care centers and help less fortunate.

Women’s Christian Temperance Union Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it used educational, social, and political means to promote legislation which dealt with issues ranging from health and hygiene, prison reform and world peace. protection of women and children at home and work women's right to vote shelters for abused women support from labor movements such as the Knights of Labor the eight-hour work day equal pay for equal work founding of kindergartens assistance in founding of the PTA federal aid for education stiffer penalties for sexual crimes against girls and  women uniform marriage and divorce laws

Women’s Christian Temperance Union Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, it used educational, social, and political means to promote legislation which dealt with issues ranging from health and hygiene, prison reform and world peace. prison reform, police matrons and women police officers homes and education for wayward girls pure food and drug act legal aid world peace Opposed and worked against the drug traffic the use of alcohol and tobacco white slavery and child labor army brothels

Women’s Christian Temperance Union Most successful work was in alerting the nation of the evils of alcohol and promoting legislation to outlaw it. Passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919 to outlaw alcohol.

Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carrie Nation. She would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet.

Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times, and paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets. Changed her name to Carry A. Nation and referred to herself as “A Home Defender”.

Jan. 10, 1917: The NWP began to picket the White House.

Suffrage Parades Suffrage Parade, NY City, May 6, 1912 (LC); Suffrage Parade, Wash. D.C., March 3, 1913

Anti-Suffrage Headquarters Anti-Women's Suffrage

President Woodrow Wilson & the 19th Amendment President Wilson walks past pickets at the White House gates; Woodrow Wilson Cartoon mocking him as the emancipator of women as Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved African Americans during the Civil War

19th AMENDMENT WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE!!!!! 1920 Tennessee passed by 1 vote. Tennessee made the election of amendment OFFICIAL. November 2, 1920 –Many women voted for the 1st time.

Finally, on Aug. 20, 1920, the 19th Amendment became part of the United States Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it Finally, on Aug. 20, 1920, the 19th Amendment became part of the United States Constitution when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify it