Chapter 17 Section 2

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Chapter 17 Section 2

Women Make Progress

Focus Question

How did women of the Progressive Era make progress and win the right to vote?

·  In the early 1900s, many women were no longer ______playing a limited role in society. ______helped bring about ______reforms including women’s suffrage.

·  Women would continue the ______to ______their roles and rights in the future.

Women Want More

·  By the early 1900s, a growing number of ______women wanted to do more than stay at home as ______and ______.

·  Colleges like Pennsylvania’s ______and New York’s School of Social Work armed middle-class women with ______and modern ideas.

·  However, most ______women continued to labor long hours, often under ______or dirty conditions.

Women at Work

Progressive reforms addressed working women’s conditions:

•  They worked long hours in factories and ______, or as maids, laundresses or servants.

•  They were paid less and often didn’t get to keep their ______.

•  They were ______and ______by employers.

Reforms for Women

·  Reformers saw ______the length of a woman’s work day as an important goal and succeeded in several states.

·  In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court ruled that states could ______limit a women’s work day.

·  This ______recognized the ______role of women as mothers.

Florence Kelley

·  In 1899, Florence ______founded the Women’s Trade Union League which worked for a federal ______and a national eight-hour workday.

·  The WTUL also created the first workers’ ______, which helped support families who refused to work in ______or unfair conditions.

The Temperance Movement

·  Progressives supported the ______movement.

·  They felt that ______often led men to spend their earnings on liquor, neglect their ______and ______their wives.

·  The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union grew steadily until the passage of the _____th Amendment which banned the ______and ______of alcohol in ______.

Birth Control

·  In 1916, Margaret ______opened the first ______clinic. She believed that having fewer children would lead to healthier women.

·  She was ______. The courts eventually ruled that doctors could give out ______information.

·  In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League to make information available to women.

African American Women

African Americans also worked for women’s rights.

•  ______founded the National Association of Colored Women or NACW in 1896.

•  The NACW supported ______centers for the children of working parents.

•  Wells also worked for suffrage, to end ______, and to stop ______in the Chicago schools.

Women’s Suffrage

•  Ultimately ______was seen as the only way to ______that government protected children, fostered education, and supported family life

•  Since the 1860s, Susan B. ______and Elizabeth Cady ______worked ______for women’s suffrage.
Still, by the 1890s, only ______and ______allowed women to vote.

National Woman’s Party

·  In 1917, social ______led by Alice Paul formed the National Woman’s Party. Their ______actions made the suffrage movement’s goals seem less
______by comparison.

·  The NWP ______the White House.

·  Hundreds of ______were arrested and jailed.

National American Suffrage Association

·  President of the National American Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman ______, promoted a two-part ______to gain the vote for women.

·  NAWSA ______Congress for a constitutional ______.

·  Supporters, called suffragettes, used the ______process to pass state laws.

Women Against Suffrage

·  Not all women ______suffrage

·  The National Association Opposed to Woman’s Suffrage feared voting would distract women from their ______.

·  Many men and women were ______by Paul’s protests in front of the White House. A ______shredded her signs and pickets.

Western States Grant Women Suffrage

·  States gradually granted suffrage to women, starting in the ______states.

19th Amendment

·  In June ______, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by Congress. The amendment stated that the vote “shall not be ______or ______on account of sex.”

·  In November 1920, women ______voted in a presidential ______for the first time.