1. Women’s Suffrage and Roosevelt’s Square Deal
Chapter 16
Section 2 & 3

2. Women get Progressive: Late 1800’s new opportunities emerged for women in education and employment
1833 Oberlin College(Ohio) allows women to enroll
% college students are women
1915 women allowed into American Medical Association
Today 56% college students are women
Employment
“Caring Industry” teachers and nurses
New industry attracts women, especially garment
Less pay than men for same job
Business caters to new workers with advertisements and female journalists

3. I am woman…hear me roar Gaining political experience
Women are major players in Progressive movement
Lillian Wald founds Henry Street Settlement in NY
Led to Federal Children’s Bureau
Can’t I get a drink here…Prohibition
Prohibition-ban on making, selling, and distributing alcohol
Women’s Christian Temperence Union WCTU and evangelist Billy Sunday campaign against the evils of alcohol

4. Carrie Nation and her Hatchet
Carrie Nation smashes saloons all across the nation, gaining notoriety as a crusader against alcohol
Prohibition is ratified (1919) in the 18th amendment…it proves so unpopular, it is repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment
"I want you to quit fooling and let me out of jail. If you cause me to miss my engagements, I won't feel like a ministering angel unto you." She added, "It is time for you to recover yourself before the devil, your master, makes a clean sweep with you into hell."

5. Women’s Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869
Susan B. Anthony worked to give women the constitutional right to vote
Supreme Court rules that women are citizens, but cannot vote
“Failure is impossible”
1920 the 19th amendment is passed and voters cannot be discriminated by sex

6. Anti-Sufferage Movements
Women do not have education
Women have duties in the home
Women did not want to vote
Liquor industry feared Prohibition

7. Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal
T.Roosevelt worried New York Republican machine when he won governor… They promote him to Vice President on McKinley Ticket
Then…

8. More Roosevelt Youngest President at 42 years old
Bully Pulpit-President should be active governing policies
1902 Coal Strike TR forces Mine owners to accept arbitration “fair deal”

9. No molly-coddling here
TR uses Sherman Anti-trust to break Northern Securities Co. RR
Regulated RR, congress passed Elkins Act—no rebates
The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act are passed to protect consumers from tainted food

10. Environmental Conservation
                                                            
Environmental Conservation
Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot push for natural resources to be conserved…Conservation is born
Roosevelt establishes U.S. Forest Service
150 million acres in national forests, now there are 193 million acres protected

11. Misc. Theodore Roosevelt
                                                     
Misc. Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel in the “Rough Riders” during Spanish-American War
Nobel Peace Prize stopping Russo-Japanese war
President during building of Panama canal
Rancher in Badlands of Dakota Territory