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

• 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

• 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

• 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.