1. Women And The Progressive Era

2. 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!!!!!!!

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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”.

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

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

14. Anti-Suffrage Headquarters
Anti-Women's Suffrage

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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