Transcript Progressive Women - Pullman Education Portal

Progressive Women
College
• Oberlin College OH- First to allow women
to attend
– By 1870- 20% was women
• Skills learned at college put to use in
social reform movements
Jobs
• Women entering work force in record
numbers
– In “caring professions”
• Reasons for lower pay
– Women working were single and supported by
dad
– Men had to support a family
Job Opportunities
• Female:
– Artists
– Journalists
– Magazines
– Typists
– Nurses
– Secretaries
– Teachers
Impacts of Jobs and Education
• Women started to see the world differently
and the roles they played in the
community and society.
• Women became backbone of Progressive
movement
Prohibition!!!!!
• Ban on making, selling, and distribution of
alcohol
• Believed that alcohol was often
responsible for crime, poverty, and
violence against women and children.
Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union
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Headed by Frances Willard
Campaigned for alcohol temperance
Protestant churches take up cause
Saloons source of sin
Carry Nation
• Smashed up saloons
with a hatchet in KS
• Fiery speeches
• Huge following
18th Amendment
• Ratified 1919
• Prohibited sale,
manufacturing, and
distribution of alcohol
IMPACT:
• Rise of organized
crime
• Muscle Cars
• Automatic guns
• Bootleggers and
Moonshine
National Association of Colored
Women- 1896
• Not welcomed in reform movement
– Started own
• Worked for the same rights
Suffrage
• Seneca Falls
Convention- 72 yrs till
right to vote
• Susan B. Anthony– Leader in Suffrage
movement
– Forms National
Women’s Suffrage
Movement
• 1869- WY 1st to allow
women to vote
Anthony in court
• Arrested for voting
• Found guilty and fined $100
– Was not allowed to testify
– Refused to pay in hopes of appeal
– Judge doesn’t force to pay
Reasons Against Women Voting
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Interferes w/women duties at home
Liquor feared temperance movement
Businesses feared regulations
Marriage was a sacred bond and the MAN
represented the family
• Not smart enough
• No experience
National Women’s Suffrage
Association
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In 1890 NWSA merges with NWSA
Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1920 women gain right to VOTE!!!
Anthony and Stanton both passed away
before then.