17.2 Flashcards
How did Florence Kelley empower women consumers
Helped found the national consumers league and encouraged women to buy their goods
Temperance movement
Led by Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU)
to outlaw alcohol
Margaret Sanger
Founded American Birth Control League to provide information about birth control to women
Ida B Wells
Black teacher who helped form the National Association of Colored Women to help those who were less fortunate
NAWSA
National American Women’s Suffrage Association Carrie Chapman Catt was president starting in 1900
How did muller vs. Oregon help and hurt women
It lowered women’s work hours but was then used as a reason to pay women less than men for the same job
NWP
National Women’s Party founded by Alice Paul a Quaker
How did the NAWSA and NWP compare
The NAWSA was much more calm as opposed to the NWP which would go on hunger strikes
How did WWI contribute to women’s suffrage
Women’s involvement in the war convinced many legislatures to support their right to vote
19th Amendment
Passed on June 1919 and gave women the right to vote
Seneca Falls Convention
the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movement
