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Progressive Movement

Progressive Movement. Women’s Rights/Suffrage. 1) Women’s rights A) Abolitionists women were some of the leaders to ban slavery B) Seneca Falls Convention: Stressed equal rights for women as far as the vote was concerned C) 1850’s suffrage (The right to vote).

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Progressive Movement

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  1. Progressive Movement

  2. Women’s Rights/Suffrage • 1) Women’s rights • A) Abolitionists women were some of the leaders to ban slavery • B) Seneca Falls Convention: Stressed equal rights for women as far as the vote was concerned • C) 1850’s suffrage (The right to vote)

  3. Women’s Rights/Suffrage • Women’s rights: • D) Demand for voting rights gets big boost • 15thamendment (gave blacks the right to vote) • New laws (many who didn’t vote were voting) • Non-Slave territories allowed blacks to vote there

  4. Women’s Rights/Suffrage • 2) Opponents to women’s voting: Women were already represented by their husband/fathers/sons/brothers • A) Women’s interests were already protected.

  5. Women’s Rights/Suffrage • 3) Factors leading to the 19thamendment: • A) More opportunities for women • B) World War I: More women worked (supported the war)

  6. Women’s Rights/Suffrage • 4) Family Planning: another women’s movement • A) Birth Control • B) Margaret Sanger: Founded the National Birth Control League • Upset too many women were dying in illegal abortion situations. • Upset at the plight of unwanted or unplanned pregnancies.

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