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Women’s Rights & Prohibition

Women’s Rights & Prohibition. Objective: Explain the Temperance movement and how women won the right to vote. Temperance Movement. a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. During the industrial revolution, workers would typically come to work drunk and spend most of

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Women’s Rights & Prohibition

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  1. Women’s Rights & Prohibition Objective: Explain the Temperance movement and how women won the right to vote

  2. Temperance Movement a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol. During the industrial revolution, workers would typically come to work drunk and spend most of the salaries on alcohol. 50% of all crime was alcohol related.

  3. Carry Nation – smashed saloons with a hatchet; helped bring passage of 18th amendment

  4. 18th Amendment--1919 “Prohibition”-banned the sale, distribution and manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. Reformers thought the ban would reduce poverty and crime. It did not. Under Prohibition, people broke the law if they made, sold, or shipped alcoholic beverages. Powerful crime gangs turned selling illegal liquor into a big business. This photo shows federal agents getting ready to smash containers of illegal whiskey. The 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933.

  5. Prohibition and Bootlegging One of the effects of the Prohibition Amendment was to create an illegal trade in alcohol. That trade was run by “bootleggers”. The term comes from the practice of hiding flasks of liquor in a boot top. Bootleggers developed an entire chain of distribution from distillers or brewers to bars. Those bars often called “speakeasies”, because of the need to speak quietly to avoid attracting police attention.

  6. “Gangsters” • Another effect of Prohibition was the rise of Organized Crime: Gangs fought for control of the Bootleg Business. Notorious “Mobsters” such as Al Capone from Chicago and Lucky Luciano from NYC fought for “bootlegging rites”. Because of the dangerous gang activity(murder), millions of dollars lost in tax revenue and fighting crime, many Americans called for the repeal of Prohibition. It is the ONLY Amendment to be repealed.

  7. p.107 Women’s Rights Reformers • Susan B. Anthony: 1820—1906 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815—1902 They were skilled organizers who worked in the Temperance and antislavery Movements as well as Women Suffrage. • They built the women’s movement into a national organization, National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). • Supported women suffrage • Supported the rights of married women to own property • Equal wages http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

  8. WWI • During the war membership in NAWSA reached 2 million • NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt argued women were supporting the war and could no longer be denied the right to vote • President Wilson call passage of amendment “vital to the winning of the war”

  9. p.107 19th Amendment-1920 • gave women the right to vote or suffrage.

  10. Activity and Summary • What was the Temperance Movement? • How did WWI influence the passage of the 19th Amendment? • Activity: Illustrate the 18th or 19th Amendment

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