11. Womens suffrage organisations

Question 1

NAWSA changed into the

Answer 1

League of Women Voters (LWV)

Question 2

League of Women Voters (LWV)

direction of movement divided?

Answer 2

Veteran campaigner Jane Addams wanted women to campaign on women’s issues. Carrie Chapman Catt wanted women to integrate into national political life and develop into equal citizens and participants

Question 3

LWV spent a lot of time and energy persuading women to vote because

Answer 3

Women didn’t take advantage of vote- turnout in 1920 election low

Question 4

few former suffragists joined LWV

Answer 4

only 5-10% of members of NAWSA joined new organisation

Question 5

continuation of pre-war tendency to campaign for

Answer 5

specific social and civic issues
women active in church organisations, in groups promoting educational improvement and better working conditions and continuing campaigns for temperance and moral uplift

Question 6

work of Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching urged

Answer 6

federal action against increasing violence in South against AA

Question 7

Conservative organisations popular. most famously the

Answer 7

Daughters of American Revolution. (patriotic. open to women who can show their ancestors played a role in achieving US independence)

Question 8

daughters of the American Revolution

Answer 8

popular conservative association
patriotic society
open to women who can show ancestors played a role in achieving US independence
formed 1890
180,000 members
aimed to commemorate and celebrate key elements of US society