1. Notes 11.2
Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights

2. Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights
Notes 11.2
Lesson 2 Women Gain Rights
Key Terms
National Consumers League (NCL)
temperance movement
suffrage
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Nineteenth Amendment,

3. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Women in the lower classes had worked outside the home
Factories
Laundries
Middle-class women began to gain education and work for social change and equality

4. Expanding Opportunities for Women
In what decade did the number of women enrolled in institutions of higher education increase the most? What do you think spurred this change?

5. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Florence Kelley founded National Consumers League (NCL) worked for safe and healthy working conditions
Temperance Movement began to grow
Frances Willard
Focused on suffrage

6. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Margaret Sanger worked for available birth control
Ida B. Wells worked to end lynching and expand rights for African-Americans

7. Expanding Opportunities for Women
Like their male counterparts, women workers, like these women in a cigar factory near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, struggled with unpleasant and sometimes unhealthy working conditions.

8. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Political issues affected women’s life, therefore they should have voice in the government
Protect children
Foster education
Support family life

9. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Susan B Anthony worked in the mid 1800s for women’s rights
National Woman Suffrage Association
Carrie Chapman Catt was president of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) which worked to gain suffrage at state and national level
Brought women together of all races

10. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Activist began to use public rallies and parades to promote women’s rights
Alice Paul formed National Women’s Party and believed drastic steps must be taken
Public protest
Hunger strikes
Jail time

11. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Hypothesize Why would an organization such as NAOWS oppose woman suffrage?

12. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
In which region of the United States did the majority of states achieve full suffrage for women before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

13. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
In which region of the United States did the majority of states achieve full suffrage for women before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

14. Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Women’s rights groups supported the WWI war effort which helped gain support among male legislators
1919-Congress approved 19th Amendment
Sent to the states and approved
Election of 1920-women voted

15. Quiz: Expanding Opportunities for Women
What was the purpose of the National Consumers League?
A. to discourage the production and sale of alcohol
B. to label products made under good working conditions
C. to unite upper-class and working-class women as leaders
D. to increase consumption in order to boost the economy

16. Quiz: Women Seek Equal Political Rights
Why did Suffragists criticize President Wilson for declaring, “the world must be made safe for democracy”?
A. They did not believe that the president could achieve such a lofty goal.
B. They did not believe that democracy could be a successful system of government.
C. They did not think that aiding foreign countries should be a priority of the United States.
D. They did not think that the United States could be a true democracy until women could vote.