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Women and Progressives • Changing roles 1. more working outside home 2. more educated 3. less time spent on housework 4. more involved with social causes • Working at settlement houses • Women’s clubs involved with social services
Fight for women’s suffrage • Push for women’s suffrage starting at Seneca Falls (NY) Convention 1848 • National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890) • Wyoming: first state to grant women suffrage (1890) • Alice Paul picketing White House (1917) • President Wilson’s shift to support female suffrage • Nineteenth Amendment (1920): women’s right to vote
women and social reform • Child labor • Regulating food and medicine industries • State pensions for widows and abandoned mothers with children • Women’s Trade Union League: urging women workers to unionize
temperance (anti-alcoholic beverage) crusade • Start of temperance movement: early 1800’s in New England and Midwest • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1874) • Anti-Saloon League (1894) • Linking alcohol use to violence, poverty, disease, and unemployment • Some states outlawing alcoholic beverages • Eighteenth Amendment—Prohibition Law-- (1919): outlawing alcoholic beverages