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1 Other Reforms of the Progressive Era
Women African Americans Prohibition

2 Women’s Suffrage Movement

3 Women’s Rights Discrimination Facing Women Legally Economically
Denied full citizenship Can’t vote, hold office or be on juries Economically Men control all property and income Paid less for same work, can not get upper level jobs Socially Republican Motherhood / Cult of Domesticity Regulated to running the household Few, if any, colleges admit women

4 According to the map, in which region of the United States did women
receive the most support for equal suffrage before passage of the 19th Amendment? East (3) West South (4) North Women's Suffrage

5 Women’s Suffrage Women had gained the right to vote in some local elections in late 1800s starting in West Arguments Pro – basic rights if blacks can then women should be able to undemocratic to limit half of people in country events of WWI Anti – will destroy homes women shouldn’t be involved in politics Represented by men

6 Women’s Rights Organizations 19th Amendment Passed in 1920
National American Women’s Suffrage Association Elizabeth Cady Stanton Carrie Chapman Catt Congressional Union Alice Paul Protests and hunger strikes in prison 19th Amendment Passed in 1920

7 Rights of African Americans

8 Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915)
Worked out of Tuskegee Institute (Black college in Alabama) Atlanta Compromise Speech Believed A-A should accept discrimination focus on education and economic success A-A needed to make themselves economically self-sufficient in order to be accepted by Whites

9 Civil Rights Booker T. Washington: don’t push for equality; focus on gaining specific skill. Once earnings rise, so will respect for blacks Founder: Tuskegee Institute “Atlanta Compromise”: accommodation to white society by conforming to white values

10 W.E.B. DuBois (1868 – 1963) Graduated from Harvard “Talented Tenth”
Educated and elite A-A should lead the cause Should receive equal education as whites Demand equal rights Niagara Movement Creates the NAACP Fights for equality through the court system

11 Civil Rights W.E.B. DuBois: Push for equal rights now.
Gain a broader education (not just skill), fight against discrimination Started Niagara Movement Founder: NAACP:

12 Marcus Garvey (1887 – 1940) Jamaican came to U.S. in 1916 (would go back and forth) Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association Used to spread ideas of “Garveyism” All persons of African descent should return to Africa Separate black economy Did not get along with DuBois

13 Segregation

14 African American School

15 Prohibition

16 Prohibition Poster

17 Women's Christian Temperance Union

18 Prohibition (more on this in the Roaring 20s)
Leaders of the movement: WCTU – Women’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-Saloon League Strategies? Reasoning / Motivations From the 1830s/1840s New for the Progressive Era Impacts: 18th Amendment (passed in 1919) 21st Amendment (passed in 1933) Why did Prohibition fail?

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