Progressive Era (The People's Rights) Flashcards
Public interests
the good of all the people
N.A.A.C.P
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People:
- organization that helped minorities gain equal rights
Booker T. Washington
stressed living in harmony with whites, established a college for blacks to learn and get political and social equality
W.E.B Du Bois
urged blacks to fight, joined with Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, and other reformers in 1909 to form the NAACP
Ida B. Wells
urged blacks to boycott buses and white stores
Seneca Falls Convention
a convention that advocated for women’s rights in 1849
Carrie Chapman Catt
a women’s rights activist who championed the 19th amendment
X. Women’s Rights Movement
many supporters for universal rights attended, was led by Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
formed by Stanton and Anthony
XI. The 19th amendment
Paul and Chapman had been fighting for their rights and were unfairly jailed but started a hunger strike, Wilson then supported an amendment giving women the right to vote which was later passed
Jeannette Rankin
first female federal politician to serve in Congress from 1917-1919 and 1941-1943
enfranchisement
to give right to vote to