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Kent Chronicles Suffrage and Prohibition. Intertwined Progressive Amendments to the Constitution May, 2013. Interconnected Reform Groups. Abolitionists Suffragettes Prohibitions. Interrelated groups;
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Kent ChroniclesSuffrage and Prohibition Intertwined Progressive Amendments to the Constitution May, 2013
Interconnected Reform Groups • Abolitionists • Suffragettes • Prohibitions Interrelated groups; Suffrage and Prohibition learned about social reform from the Abolitionists, then fed off the energy of one another
Women’s Suffrage • World Anti-Slavery Convention • Seneca Falls, NY • The Declaration of Sentiments
Suffragette Split • 15th Amendment • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone • Julia Ward Howe
National American Woman Suffrage Association • Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman’s Party • Alice Paul • Lucy Burns
Now What? • League of Women Voters
Changing Role for Women • More opportunities for work • Refused to return to Victorian society • Really, this was only in the Cities
Prohibition Laws • Wartime Prohibition • 18th Amendment • Volstead Act
Dries • Washingtonians • Women’s Christian Temperance Movement • Frances Willard • Carrie Nation • Prohibition Party • Anti-Saloon League
Wets • The German American League • Adolphus Busch • Association Against the Prohibition Amendment • Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform • Pauline Sabin
Everybody Else • “Capital T” Total Abstinence • Or • Scofflaws
Unintended Consequences • Stockpiled • Bootlegging • Rum running
Organized Crime • Al Capone • Roy Olmstead • Wood Alcohol poisoning
DIY Booze • Grape Bricks • Home Stills • Home Brewing
Unintended Consequences • Loss of Federal Government Revenue
Killing Prohibition • Speakeasies.