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Women Gain Rights

Use your textbook to complete the sentence outline as a source of notes.

I.The opportunities for women were expanded during the Progressive Era.

A.Economic issues for women were often unfair.

1.Women often forfeited pay to males after working long hours in poor conditions.

2. Women workers were likely uneducated.

a.Women were often bullied and abused at work.

b. Women were unable to vote in order to affect change.

B.Oregon passed a law to limit the hours worked by women.

1.Muller v. Oregon supported the Oregon law.

2.Louis Brandeis believed it harmed women to make them to work long hours.

3.The Supreme Court allowed laws to limit work hours for

women.

C.Florence Kelley made changes to help women.

1.She helped found the National Consumer’s League.

a.The NCL wanted things fairly priced and labeled.

b.The NCL wanted to end production of items in sweatshops.

c.The NCL wanted the government to pay the unemployed.

2.She helped form the Women’s Trade Union League.

a.The WTUL helped improve conditions for factory workers.

b.The WTUL pushed for laws setting a minimum wage and an 8-hour day.

D.Women formed organizations to lead the Temperance Movement.

1.They founded the Anti-Saloon League and CWTU.

2.Temperance is the practice of never drinking alcohol.

3.One of the leaders of the WCTU was _Francis__ _Willard___

4.Their work led to the adoption of the _18th__ _Amendment__

E.Other social issues were addressed by women.

1.Margret Sanger worked forwomen’s birth control.

2.Ida Wells Barnet ledan anti-lynching campaign.

II.Women seek equal political rights.

A.Early reformers worked to end slavery and gain suffrage.

B.Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National

Woman Suffrage Association.

1.They originally fought to end slavery.

2.The WSA fought for a Constitutional Amendment grantingwomen the vote.

C.Carrie Chapman Catt helped form the reorganized National Woman

Suffrage Association.

1.Some teams lobbied Congress for an amendment allowing

women the right to vote.

2.Some teams tried to use referendum to get the right to vote on

on the state level.

D.Jane Addams and Harriet Stanton Blatch became new reform leaders.

1.They called for improvements in education.

2.They also tried to end child labor in the United States.

3.They believed women’s suffrage would solve other social

problems.

E.Alice Paul believed that more drastic steps were needed to gain the

vote.

1.She formedthe National Woman’s Party.

a.This group was the first to march with picket signs

outside the White House.

b.She and others went on hunger strikes while in jail.

F.Three groups were opposed to women’s suffrage.

1.Alcohol manufacturers were against it because of women’s stand against drinking.

2.Textile industries were against it because of women’s stand against child labor.

3.The NAOWS was against it because they believed it would take women’s attention away from

the family and social work.

G.The Nineteenth Amendment allowed women the right to vote.

1.On August 18, 1920the Tennessee Legislature agreed to

ratify the 19th Amendment allowing women the right to vote.

2.On November 2, 1920women flocked to the poles to vote

in their first presidential election.