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Progressive Women Women’s Suffrage & Prohibition

Progressive Women Women’s Suffrage & Prohibition. Win the Vote! End the Drink!. Women’s Suffrage. Suffrage: right to vote Women denied the vote Inferior to men Denied equal rights Progressive women begin to protest for the vote & equal treatment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony.

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Progressive Women Women’s Suffrage & Prohibition

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  1. Progressive WomenWomen’s Suffrage&Prohibition Win the Vote! End the Drink!

  2. Women’s Suffrage • Suffrage: right to vote • Women denied the vote • Inferior to men • Denied equal rights • Progressive women begin to protest for the vote & equal treatment Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony

  3. National Women’s Suffrage Association • Founded in 1869 by Cady & Anthony • Goals • Suffrage • Equal rights • Easier divorce • Equal pay • Able to join labor unions

  4. NWSA Executives

  5. Suffrage in the West • Many western states allow women the vote • Suffragettes protest for national suffrage • Lucy Stone

  6. The Awakening

  7. Anti-Suffrage

  8. Women Win the Vote! • 1919: Congress approves the 19th Amendment • August 26, 1920: 19th Amendment ratified by states & approved • Women guaranteed suffrage (vote)

  9. Prohibition • Progressives want to improve morals • Alcohol blamed • Caused break-up of families & unemployment • Alcohol seen as un-American, immigrants • Anti-Saloon League • Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  10. Carry A. Nation • Attacked saloons • Believed it was God’s work • "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn't like," • "rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, saturn-faced rummies." • Arrested 30 times

  11. America Goes Dry • http://www.westervillelibrary.org/AntiSaloon/printed_material/fliers.html • 18th Amendment passed in 1917 • Ratified in 1919 • Outlaws the sale, manufacture & distribution of alcohol

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