Chapter 6, Section 2

Question 1

What was higher education like for women?

Answer 1

• usually not an option
• Oberlin College 1833 (for college to allow for women to join)
• middle or upper classes
• professional opportunities denied
• many women turned to reforms

Question 2

What were employment opportunities like for educated women?

Answer 2

• teachers, nurses originally
• became bookkeepers, typists, shop clerks
• newspapers and magazines began to hire

Question 3

Lillian Wald

Answer 3

• end child labor, promote children’s education
• campaigned for gov’t. agency
• Federal Children’s Bureau (1912)

Question 4

Prohibition

Answer 4

• prohibited the making, selling and distributing of alcohol
• reformers believed that alcohol was responsible for crime, poverty and violence toward women and children

Question 5

Who led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?

Answer 5

Frances Willard

Question 6

What groups were against alcohol?

Answer 6

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and Anti-Saloon League

Question 7

First territory to allow women to vote

Answer 7

Wyoming

Question 8

Billy Sunday

Answer 8

• ex-baseball player
• preached against the evils of drinking

Question 9

Carry Nation

Answer 9

• went into saloons with a Bible in one hand and a hatchet in the other
• in Kansas
• became national figure

Question 10

18th Amendment

Answer 10

• prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
• passed by Congress December 18, 1917
• ratified by the states January 16, 1919
• became law January 16, 1920

Question 11

Who was Ida B. Wells Bennett?

Answer 11

an Anti-lynching activist

Question 12

What was the National Association of Colored Women against?

Answer 12

against poverty, segregation, lynching

Question 13

Where and when did the women’s suffrage movement begin?

Answer 13

began in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY

Question 14

What fueled the suffrage movement in the beginning?

Answer 14

many angry with the 15th Amendment (1870)
gave African American males the right to vote but not women

Question 15

NWSA

Answer 15

• National Woman Suffrage Association
• 1869
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
• wanted constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote

Question 16

AWSA

Answer 16

• 1869
• Henry Ward Beecher
• wanted a state-by-state basis to win the right to vote
• American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 17

NAWSA

Answer 17

-1890
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1st president
- National American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 18

National Women’s Party

Answer 18

• Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
• 1913 broke away from NAWSA
• wanted a federal constitutional amendment for women’s suffrage
• very radical
• picketed the White House, chained themselves to the White House fence, hunger strikes

Question 19

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 19

• 1872
• Anthony and 3 of her sisters registered to vote
• voted on Election Day in Rochester, NY
  -2 weeks later were arrested
• At trial, could not testify on her behalf.
• found guilty and fined $100.00
• refused to pay the fine
• Hoped to be arrested and create a case that
  would go through the courts
  -judge did not and not able to appeal her case

Question 20

1875 (Minor vs. Happersett)

Answer 20

• Women are citizens…HOWEVER…citizenship does not give them the right to vote!

Question 21

Anti-suffrage arguments…

Answer 21

-interfere with duties at home
-destroy families
-did not have the education to be competent voters
-most women did not want to vote
-politics was a male world
-marriage was a sacred bond in which the entire family was represented by the male
-liquor industry felt women would vote for Prohibition
-business owners felt women would vote for regulations that would drive up business costs