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

Education

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

19th Amendment

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

Switching Gears

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.

21st Amendment

Lest we forget