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Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement? (Top page 32)

Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement? (Top page 32). To protect social welfare To promote moral improvement To give women the right to vote To create economic reform To foster efficiency. Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement?. To protect social welfare

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Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement? (Top page 32)

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  1. Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement?(Top page 32) • To protect social welfare • To promote moral improvement • To give women the right to vote • To create economic reform • To foster efficiency

  2. Which was NOT a goal of the Progressive movement? • To protect social welfare • To promote moral improvement • To give women the right to vote • To create economic reform • To foster efficiency

  3. Vocabulary Builder • Suffrage – The right to vote • Domestic – home, relating to the running of household

  4. Goal • To investigate the expanding role of women in public life during the progressive era.

  5. Women in Public Life(title top of page 33) • Before civil war most married women worked at home • By the end of the 19th Century many women had to work outside the house to earn money • 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention, women’s suffrage movement began. • 1896 – NACW (National Association of Colored Women) formed. • 1900, 1 in 5 American women held jobs, 25% in manufacturing. Half were employed in garment trades.

  6. Susan B. Anthony Born on Feb. 15, 1820, in Adams, Mass., Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

  7. Servants Domestics, cooks, maids, scullery Servants Domestics, Caring for boarders at home Servants Domestics, Caring for boarders at home H.S. Education, Bookeepers, stenographers Typists, new machines Middle and Upper class women responsibilities went from caring for home and family to getting HS educated for jobs as bookeepers, stenographers and typists. Middle and Upper class women began pushing for reforms such as Suffrage. They also began attending college so that by late 19th Century marriage was not the only option for women. Social Reform was huge. • They pushed for a • national • constitution They went to court to see if 14thAmendment meant women should be allowed to vote Tried to convince state legislatures By 1890s – Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho Women could vote • Susan B Anthony • Pushed for courts to say • Women were citizens. • Supreme Court Agreed Women were seen as citizens but had to wait for the States to allow them to vote

  8. Suffrage • Women tried three approaches to win the vote. • Tried to convince state legislatures • They went to court to clarify whether the provisions of the 14th Amendment meant women should be allowed to vote • They pushed for a national constitution

  9. Reflection • Of the three approaches women used to win the vote, which provision do you think is the most important? Why? • Include (one) provision • Why you picked this provision • The effect on your life today?

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