Women And The Progressive Era

Women And The Progressive Era

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!!!!!!!

WORKING WOMEN’S RIGHTS  Florence Kelley National Consumers League (NCL)  Labels on goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions.  Urged not to buy goods without these labels.

 Backed laws for inspecting meat plants, safer working conditions, and payment to unemployed.

• Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) ▫ Fought for a minimum wage and 8 hour workday.

▫ 1st workers strike fund.

CHANGES IN FAMILY LIFE  Temperance Movement    

Promoted by WCTU. Practice of never drinking alcohol. Caused problems with men. Led to 18th Amendment. (prohibition)

Margaret Sanger *Birth control movement/clinic. *1921- American Birth Control League

Ida B. Wells *National Association of Colored Women *Day care centers and help less fortunate.

Margaret Sanger

Ida.B. Wells

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

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

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.

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.

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”.

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT  National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) President  One of 1st women superintendents.  1918- N.Y., Michigan, Oklahoma= right to vote  “Society Plan”- Recruit wealthy educated women to fight for suffrage.  Some women were against suffrage.

ALICE PAUL  National Women’s Party (NWP)  Used public protest marches.  1st to march with picket signs outside of White House.

 Many were arrested but it helped the suffrage cause.

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

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.

• 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