1. Woman’s Suffrage and Prohibition

2. Women’s Roles Change
By the late 1800’s the role of women was changing in America

3. Women’s Roles Change More women were going to college
Pursuing jobs in teaching, nursing, medicine, and other areas

5. Women’s Roles Change
The “New Woman” became the term for the women who followed interests outside the home.
Many of these women became writers, speakers, fund-raisers, and reformers.

6. Women’s Roles Change Women’s Clubs were created
Became involved in addressing social problems
Members were offered chances for self-improvement
Members learned new skills and were encouraged to continue their education.

7. Women’s Roles Change African American women developed their own clubs.
National Association of Colored Women.
Created homes for orphans and founded hospitals.

8. The Fight for Suffrage
The Fifteenth Amendment allowed voting to all freed men, this did not include women.

9. The Fight for Suffrage
People who fought for women’s right to vote were called suffragists.

10. The Fight for Suffrage National Woman Suffrage Association
Founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
They wanted an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote in national and state elections.

13. The Fight for Suffrage Opposition to woman suffrage
Some people, both women and men, were against allowing women to vote.

14. The Fight for Suffrage
Those opposed to woman suffrage believed it would change the balance of society and lead to problems in the home.

15. State Elections State Elections
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote in state elections in 1869
By 1919, most states allowed women to vote in some state elections.

16. National Elections National Elections
In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson stated he did not support woman suffrage.

17. National Elections Alice Paul,
leader of the National Woman’s Party, led a protest in front of the White House.

18. National Elections
The protestors were arrested for blocking the sidewalk
In jail, they started a hunger strike.

19. National Elections Support for women’s right to vote began to grow.
President Wilson finally gave his support for an amendment to the constitution.

20. National Elections
The Nineteenth Amendment was approved in 1919 and ratified in 1920
The Nineteenth Amendment officially allowed women to vote in national elections

21. Women and Social Reform
Women’s clubs became more involved in social reform
They sponsored laws that regulated the labor of women and children in the workplace.

22. Women and Social Reform
They helped create the Children’s Bureau in the Labor Department
They pushed for government inspections in the workplace.
They pushed for state funding of widows and abandoned mothers.
The Women’s Trade Union League created to protect the rights of women factory workers.

23. Women and Social Reform
They supported libraries, schools, and settlement houses.
They raised money for hospitals and parks
They pushed for government inspections of food and medicine industries.

24. Suffragist Video Comparison
Susan B Anthony
Alice Paul

25. Video Comparison
Use Description Organizer for Suffragists

26. Prohibition
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League tried to convince people to stop drinking alcohol.

27. Prohibition
They supported laws that prohibited the making or selling of alcohol, called prohibition.
Leaders made speeches connecting alcohol to poverty.

28. Prohibition
Carry Nation sang songs outside saloons protesting the use of alcohol.

29. Prohibition
She also pushed her way into saloons and broke bottles and kegs with an axe.

30. Prohibition
Other people wanted to ban alcohol for social reform, religious reasons, or moral reasons.
Support from around the country began to grow.

31. Prohibition
In 1919, The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed.
It made it illegal to make, transport, or sell alcohol in the United States.