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Women and Reform in the Gilded Age

Women and Reform in the Gilded Age. Early 19th Century Reform Temperance Frances Willard and the WCTU The Settlement House Movement Women’s Rights Movement. Time-Line of Early Reform. Time-Line of Early Reform. 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers. Time-Line of Early Reform.

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Women and Reform in the Gilded Age

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  1. Women and Reform in the Gilded Age • Early 19th Century Reform • Temperance • Frances Willard and the WCTU • The Settlement House Movement • Women’s Rights Movement

  2. Time-Line of Early Reform

  3. Time-Line of Early Reform • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers

  4. Time-Line of Early Reform • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers • 1840s- Abolitionists

  5. Time-Line of Early Reform • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers • 1840s- Abolitionists • 1850s- Women’s Rights

  6. Time-Line of Early Reform • 1830s- Charitable Women Reformers • 1840s- Abolitionists • 1850s- Women’s Rights • 1890s- Temperance

  7. The Temperance Movement

  8. The Temperance Movement • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation

  9. The Temperance Movement • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation • When this failed, they tried to convince the public to abstain from consuming alcohol

  10. The Temperance Movement • Reformers first encouraged temperance- where people were supposed to drink only in moderation • When this failed, they tried to convince the public to abstain from consuming alcohol • When the abstinence campaign failed, the moved toward support of prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages- prohibition

  11. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  12. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Led by Frances Willard

  13. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Led by Frances Willard • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc.

  14. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Led by Frances Willard • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc. • Eventually embraced a wide array of social reforms to help the working classes

  15. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union • Led by Frances Willard • First focused on problems of alcohol, but soon came to see alcohol abuse as a result of poverty, poor living and working conditions, etc. • Eventually embraced a wide array of social reforms to help the working classes • Willard embraced Christian Socialism

  16. The Settlement Houses

  17. The Settlement Houses • To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living

  18. The Settlement Houses • To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living • To provide meaningful employment to the new generation of college-education women

  19. The Settlement Houses • To help immigrant and working class families adjust to urban living • To provide meaningful employment to the new generation of college-education women • Helped professionalize the social sciences of Sociology and Social work through collection of statistics, reports, and photographs

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