Progressive Women

Why then?

Essential Questions

• Why did women begin to play an increasing role in reform movements?

• Who were some of these reformers?

• What causes did they champion?

As you listen…

Think aboutwhat is striking aboutthe women’s strategies?

Gilded Age Women Gain a Voice

• 2nd class Citiz. = No reputation to defend• Urbanization = Collective work• More Education = Articles and Books• Factory Work = Independence

• World War I = Independence, New image

Quote Analysis

• Read your quote.• Identify the cause.• Who would oppose the

cause and why?

Social ReformersJane AddamsJulia LathropMargaret Sanger

MuckrakersIda Tarbell

Frances Kellor

Out of Work

Economic ReformersFlorence Kelley (National Consumers League)

Mother Mary Harris Jones

Josephine Goldmark(WTUL)

Power to boycott companies

SuffragistsAlice PaulFrancis WillardCarrie Chapman Catt

ParadesPicketsProtests

State LawsLegal ChallengesConstitutional Amendments

ReformsPolitical-initiative-recall-19th Amendment-direct election of senatorsSocial-temperance-housing-educationEconomic-WTUL (1903)-Child-labor laws-working hours-working wages

Essential Questions

• Why did women begin to play an increasing role in reform movements?

• Who were some of these reformers?

• What causes did they champion?

What was Progressivism?

• What were the goals?

• How was this era a change from the past?

• What areas experienced fairly radical change?

• What group of Americans did not?