Progressive Women
College
• Oberlin College OH- First to allow women to attend– By 1870- 20% was women
• Skills learned at college put to use in social reform movements
Jobs
• Women entering work force in record numbers– In “caring professions”
• Reasons for lower pay – Women working were single and supported by
dad– Men had to support a family
Job Opportunities
• Female:– Artists– Journalists– Magazines– Typists– Nurses– Secretaries – Teachers
Impacts of Jobs and Education
• Women started to see the world differently and the roles they played in the community and society.
• Women became backbone of Progressive movement
Prohibition!!!!!
• Ban on making, selling, and distribution of alcohol
• Believed that alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children.
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
• Headed by Frances Willard
• Campaigned for alcohol temperance
• Protestant churches take up cause
• Saloons source of sin
Carry Nation
• Smashed up saloons with a hatchet in KS
• Fiery speeches • Huge following
18th Amendment• Ratified 1919• Prohibited sale,
manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol
IMPACT:• Rise of organized
crime• Muscle Cars • Automatic guns • Bootleggers and
Moonshine
National Association of Colored Women- 1896
• Not welcomed in reform movement– Started own
• Worked for the same rights
Suffrage
• Seneca Falls Convention- 72 yrs till right to vote
• Susan B. Anthony- – Leader in Suffrage
movement – Forms National
Women’s Suffrage Movement
• 1869- WY 1st to allow women to vote
Anthony in court
• Arrested for voting
• Found guilty and fined $100 – Was not allowed to testify – Refused to pay in hopes of appeal– Judge doesn’t force to pay
Reasons Against Women Voting
• Interferes w/women duties at home
• Liquor feared temperance movement
• Businesses feared regulations
• Marriage was a sacred bond and the MAN represented the family
• Not smart enough
• No experience
National Women’s Suffrage Association
• In 1890 NWSA merges with NWSA
• Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• In 1920 women gain right to VOTE!!!
• Anthony and Stanton both passed away before then.