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. 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 NOW
Niagara Movement
Creates the NAACP
Fights for equality through the court system

10. 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

11. Segregation

12. African American School

13. Prohibition

14. Prohibition Poster

15. Women's Christian
Temperance Union

16. 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?