Women Win New RightsThe Progressive Era

(1890-1920)

Chapter 22, Section 3

Essential Questions:

• What are the measures that you would take to change something that is wrong?

Lillian Wald

• Founded the 1st Ever Visiting Nurse Program

• Founded the Henry Street Settlement in NYC

• Program Helped Poor Women and Children

Technology Changing “Women’s Work”

• New Inventions, Factories & Technology Created Products that Made Life Easier

• Women Now Had More Free Time:– Could Get a Job

Outside the Home– Women Had Fewer

Children (Smaller Families)

Jobs Offered to Women in the Early 1900’s

• Factory Jobs• Secretaries• Jobs in Stores• Telephone Operators• Store Clerks• Typists• Teachers• Nurses

• Women Were Expected to Quit Their Jobs When They Got Hitched!!!

Jane Addams’ Inspiration

• Jane Addams was Very Wealthy & a College Graduate

• Visited Settlement Houses in London Slums that Assisted the Poor

• Started the Hull House in Chicago w/her Friend Ellen Star

• Got Wealthy Citizens to Donate $$$ to Rent Out a Mansion to Create the Hull House

The Hull House

Settlement Houses• Settlement Houses Helped

the Poor By:– Provided Information

for Immigrants– Helped Unemployed

Find Jobs– Offered Kindergarten– Offered Day Care– Had After School Youth

Clubs– Nutrition Classes– Concert Programs– Taught English Classes

to Immigrants

Jane Addams’ Beliefs of the Role of Settlement Houses

“One function of the settlement to its’ neighborhood somewhat resembles that of the big brother, whose mere presence in the playground protects the little ones from bullies.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman• Fought for Women’s

Rights

• Wanted Women to Leave the Home and Start Careers (Get Jobs)

• Wrote Women and Economics, The Home, Concerning Children

• Wanted to Create Professional Day Care Programs so Women Can Go to Work!

Carrie Nation• Fought for

Prohibition

• Was Married to an Abusive Alcoholic

• Used a Hatchet to Smash Alcohol in Saloons (Bars)

• Fought for the Passage of the 18th Amendment

18th Amendment Again?• Known as

Prohibition

• Outlawed the Manufacturing, Sale & the Consumption of ALCOHOL!!!

• Many Believed Alcohol Caused Poverty, Unemployment & Violence!!!

National American WomanSuffrage Association

(NAWSA)• Fought for

Woman’s Suffrage

• Suffrage is the Right to Vote

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the 1st President of NAWSA

Susan B. Anthony• 2nd President of

N.A.W.S.A.

• Was Arrested for Voting in 1873 (Dressed Up as a Man and Voted)

• HUGE Activist For The 19th Amendment

Susan B. Anthony Role Play

1st Four States to Allow Women to Vote

• Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado

• Why were States in the West the 1st States to Give Women the Right to Vote?

Carrie Chapman Catt• President of

N.A.W.S.A. During WWI (1914-1918)

• Argued that U.S. Could NOT Win WWI if it Wasn’t for Women Working in Factories and Selling War Bonds

• President Woodrow Wilson Agreed!!!

The 19th Amendment!

19th Amendment (1919):Women’s Right to Vote!!!

Show 19th Amendment DBQ!!!

• 1st Women’s Rights Convention Ever!!!

• Took Place @ Seneca Falls, NY (Right Outside Albany) 1848

• Frederick Douglass was a Guest Speaker

Frederick Douglass

• Former African American Slave

• Fought for Abolition

• Guest Speaker at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)