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Progressive Era

Progressive Era. Women’s Suffrage Movement. Working Women. Farms Roles remain the same: cooking, cleaning, making clothes, raising livestock, plowing, planting, harvesting. Factories 1 out of 5 women held jobs and 25% in manufacturing Garment work dominated

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Progressive Era

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  1. Progressive Era Women’s Suffrage Movement

  2. Working Women • Farms • Roles remain the same: cooking, cleaning, making clothes, raising livestock, plowing, planting, harvesting • Factories • 1 out of 5 women held jobs and 25% in manufacturing • Garment work dominated • Women received ½ the pay of men • White Collar • Women began working in offices, stores, classrooms • Women worked as bookkeepers, typists, phone operators • Domestic Work • 1870, 70% of employed women worked as servants • Of freed AA women, ½ worked either on farms or as domestics

  3. Women Reformers • Addressed “social housekeeping” • Work place reform • Housing reform • Eductional Improvement • Food and Drug laws • 1896, AA women formed • National Association of Colored Women • Focus: moral education

  4. Women’s Suffrage • Opposition to Women’s Suffrage: • Women would vote for and pass prohibition • Women would reform the work place and limit child labor • Women would no longer fill the traditional role of the female in the family • 1890, National American Women’s Suffrage Association • Notable members • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone • Julia Ward Howe

  5. Political Cartoons

  6. NAWSA’s 3 Part Approach

  7. Increased activism of local groups • New strategies invigorated the movement • Rebirth of a national movement under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt • Examples: • College educated women traveled the country to gain support from poor and working women • Ideas adopted from travel to England—heckling, picketing, hunger strikes Reasons for Progress

  8. NAWSA and Catt 1900-1904, 1915

  9. Frustration • Lack of progress leads to dissent • Lucy Burns & Alice Paul form the Congressional Union (Nat’l Women’s Party) • Focused solely on a Suffrage Amendment • By 1917, the group had organized constant picketing of the White House

  10. Lucy Burns They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

  11. Change…. • Prohibition already passed • Women’s efforts in WWI should be rewarded • Committees • Liberty bonds • Manufacturing jobs • Patriotic activities

  12. 19th Amendment • Passed Congress in 1919 • Ratified by the states in Aug, 1920 • 72 years after Seneca Falls

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