1. Knights Charge 3/2
Please take a KC from the basket
Take out your maps

3. Women During the Progressive Era

4. Focusing Points…
Describe how Women’s suffrage movement impacted voting
Identify different suffrages and their accomplishments
Identify goals of the Women’s suffrage movement

5. Education Empowers Women
Women wanted to expand their role in society
More women became educated during the late 1800’s
Education enabled women to take on problems with society

6. Working Conditions for Women
Working in factories was very difficult
Often times women would make less than men
With no right to vote, women’s right in the workplace was limited

7. Working Women’s Rights
Florence Kelley created the NCL and WTUL
National Consumers League- called to reform how products were made and sold
Women’s Trade Union League- Fought to provide better working conditions for women

8. Changes in Family Life
A main goal for women was to improve family life
Women’s Christian Temperance Union- fought against the drinking of alcohol
Margaret Sanger- opened the US’s first birth control clinic

9. Women Fight to Vote
Another main goal of women was to fight for women’s suffrage
Suffrage- the right to vote

10. Suffragettes

11. Carrie Chapman Catt
Founded the National American Women Suffrage Association
Recruited women from all backgrounds to fight for suffrage

12. Alice Paul Formed the National Women’s Party
Used picket lines outside the White House
Went on hunger strikes- refusing to eat in protest

13. Emily Davidson

14. 19th Amendment June 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment
19th Amendment- the right to vote shall not be restricted based on sex
Women could VOTE