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Women of the Progressive Era

Women of the Progressive Era. Carrie Nation. Prohibition activist Went into bars where she scolded customers used a hatchet to destroy liquor. Carrie Nation visits Mark Twain. Ida Tarbell. Ida Tarbell was a writer – a muckraker. Spoke out against Standard oil and John D. Rockefeller.

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Women of the Progressive Era

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  1. Womenof theProgressive Era

  2. Carrie Nation • Prohibition activist • Went into bars where she scolded customers • used a hatchet to destroy liquor

  3. Carrie Nation visits Mark Twain

  4. Ida Tarbell • Ida Tarbell was a writer – a muckraker. • Spoke out against Standard oil and John D. Rockefeller.

  5. Josephine Ruffin • Leader in the National Association of Colored Women

  6. Susan B. Anthony • Leader in the suffrage movement. • Helped found the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA)

  7. Women’s Suffrage • Three-part Strategy • State legislatures • Use the 14th Amendment (citizenship/voting) • Amend the Constitution to guarantee woman suffrage nationwide

  8. Women’s Suffragecont’d • Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 • Ratification of 19th Amendment in 1920 • 72 years women worked for the right to vote

  9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Helped found the National Women Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony

  10. Lucy Stone • Prominent leader of The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Formed with the NWSA.

  11. Julia Ward Howe • Leader of NAWSA • author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

  12. Carrie Chapman Catt • Succeeded SB Anthony as leader of the NAWSA. • Believed that when fighting for suffrage, women should always behave in a gracious, lady-like manner.

  13. Five Tactics • Organization • Close ties with local, state, national workers • Wide support base • Cautious lobbying • Gracious, ladylike behavior

  14. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns • Formed more radical organizations – the Congressional Union and the National Women’s Party. • Picketed the White House, went on hunger strikes.

  15. Susette LaFlesche • Omaha Indian • Activist who helped secure the passage of the Dawes Act

  16. Frances Willard • Active in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Transformed W.C.T.U. from small women’s group to national organization

  17. Florence Kelley • Advocate for improving lives of women and children • Helped win passage of Illinois Factory Act of 1893

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