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Women’s Reform and Suffrage

Women’s Reform and Suffrage. SWBAT: Identify women’s role in both creating workplace reforms and the beginnings of the suffrage movement. Homework : None

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Women’s Reform and Suffrage

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  1. Women’s Reform and Suffrage SWBAT: Identify women’s role in both creating workplace reforms and the beginnings of the suffrage movement. Homework: None Do Now: What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.

  2. Do Now • What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider: economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.

  3. Reform

  4. Women and working • In the mid-1800s, poorer women start working out of necessity. • Jobs women took: • Farmers • Textile Industry (making clothing) • Domestic Work (house cleaning, laundry) • By 1900s, 1 out of 5 women had a job.

  5. Working and Reform • Began to notice some of the problems in the work force. • Problems included: • Unequal pay • Dangerous conditions (think Triangle Factory Fire) • Long hours • Child Labor • Women led the way in work place reforms.

  6. The Fight for Suffrage

  7. The movement begins… • As early as the 1840s, women began fighting for the right to vote. • Why? • The passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments • Why would this add fuel to the fire? • Women meet in Seneca Fall, NY to discuss strategy: 1. Try to convince state legislatures women should vote. 2. Used court cases to test the 14th and 15th Amendments. 3. Pushed for a constitutional amendment.

  8. “Bad Romance” video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM • What argument do the women in the song give for suffrage? • What happened to the women who picketed? • What did the note say that the male politician had in his pocket?

  9. Opposition • Liquor industry feared women would vote in favor of prohibition. • Textile industry feared women would vote for restrictions on child labor. • Overall fear that women’s roles would change.

  10. Opposition • What do these male illustrated posters suggest about how men viewed women and the right to vote?

  11. Progressivism in NJ- Primary Source Analysis • Read the account of Portia Gage who tried to cast her vote in Vineland, NJ. • Either individually or with a partner, answer the questions that follow. • This will be collected and worth 30 points.

  12. Exit Discussion • Do you think activists in the early 1900s would be proud of the steps forward women have taken to gain equality with men?

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