U3L5 Progress and Setbacks for Social Justice

Question 1

Why did some woman not like the 15th Amendment?

Answer 1

It gave the right to vote for African Americans, but not to woman

Question 2

What did the National Woman Suffrage Association work towards?

Answer 2

a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote

Question 3

Who made the National Woman Suffrage Association?

Answer 3

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Question 4

In the 1800s, which state western state gave woman the right to vote?

Answer 4

Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho

Question 5

Read this beauty 🥲

Answer 5

When Wyoming applied for statehood in 1890, many members of Congress wanted it to change its law that gave women the vote. Wyoming lawmakers replied, “We may stay out of the Union for 100 years, but we will come in with our women.” Wyoming barely won admission.

Question 6

After Stanton and Anthony died, who became the new leader?

Answer 6

Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 7

Why was Catt a great leader?

Answer 7

Catt was a brilliant organizer. She created a detailed plan to fight for suffrage, state by state. Across the nation, suffragists followed her strategy.

Question 8

What is the definition of suffragists?

Answer 8

people who worked for women’s right to vote

Question 9

Even though some states started to allowing woman to vote, was it equal?

Answer 9

No, most only allowed woman to vote in state elections.

Question 10

What did Alice Paul do to get the right to vote in London and America?

Answer 10

Paul had marched with British suffragists in London. She had been jailed and gone on hunger strikes to help British women win the vote. When Paul returned home, she fought for suffrage for American women.

Question 11

What was President Wilson’s view on woman suffrage”

Answer 11

Wilson did not oppose women’s suffrage, but he also did not back a constitutional amendment.

Question 12

What made President Wilson pass the nineteenth amendment?
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(Well I think it convinced him ;-;)

Answer 12

Rose Winslow, Paul, and other women began to picket the White House.

Question 13

What does it mean to picket?

Answer 13

a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest

Question 14

What did the nineteenth do?

Answer 14

It guaranteed woman the right to vote.

HAHA EAT THAT YOU FUCKING SEXIST MOTHER-FLIPPERS

Question 15

True of False.

The amendment doubled the number of eligible voters.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What job did most states not allow for woman (or didn’t provide a license for)?

Answer 16

Law and medicine

Question 17

What did Illinois allow Myra Bradwell to do!

Answer 17

They allowed her to practice law

Question 18

Which university gave the first Ph.D. to a woman?

Answer 18

Boston University

Question 19

By 1900, the nation had about ____ women lawyers and ____ women doctors.

Answer 19

1,000; 7,000

Question 20

In time, what did most woman clubs become?

Answer 20

Reform groups.

Question 21

What did many woman reform groups do?

Answer 21

They raised money for libraries, schools, and parks. They pressed for laws to protect women and children, to ensure pure food and drugs, and to win the vote.

Question 22

What did the Nation Association of Colored Woman do?

Answer 22

They battled to end racial injustice and worked for suffrage and other reforms.

Question 23

What did Florence Kelley do about sweatshops?

Answer 23

She investigated conditions in sweatshops. In time, she was made the chief factory inspector for the state of Illinois.

Question 24

What did Kelley do about child labor?

Answer 24

She organized a boycott of goods produced by child labor. She helped publish a list of manufacturers whose factories met basic standards.

Question 25

What did earning wages give women?

Answer 25

some power to effect change

Question 26

How do you think giving women the right to vote in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho influenced the women’s suffrage movement?

Answer 26

I think giving women the right to vote in those states made the women’s suffrage movement stronger. Women in states that did not allow suffrage saw that it was possible for women to have suffrage. They wanted these rights for themselves. Also, people saw how Western men valued the women’s contributions to their states and how letting women vote did no harm. When Wyoming applied for statehood in 1900, it would only accept statehood if the women of their state could keep their right to vote. These events brought new attitudes toward women’s suffrage into the union.

Question 27

What was the purpose of the 19th Amendment?

Answer 27

Its purpose was to guarantee women the right to vote.

Question 28

What is the definition of prohibition?

Answer 28

A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Question 29

When did the temperance movement come back?

Answer 29

1900

Question 30

Why did woman not like saloons?

Political reasons

Answer 30

In saloons, male political bosses made political decisions out of the reach of women. Most saloons refused entry to women.

Question 31

What was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?

Answer 31

Find out yourself, it’s pretty obvious.

Question 32

Who was president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?

Answer 32

Frances Willard

Question 33

Carrie Nation was also against alcohol. How were here tactics different from Frances Willard’s?

Answer 33

She dedicated her life to fighting “demon rum.” After her husband died from heavy drinking, Nation often stormed into saloons. Swinging a hatchet, she smashed beer kegs and liquor bottles.

Question 34

What did the WCTU think of Nation’s actions?

Answer 34

Nation won publicity, but her actions embarrassed the WCTU.

Question 35

When did the fight to ban alcohol increase?

Answer 35

After 1917, when the United States entered World War I.
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Temperance supporters argued that grain used to make liquor should be used instead to feed American soldiers.

Question 36

What did the Eighteenth Amendment do?

Answer 36

Made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks anywhere in the United States.

Question 37

Which group led the charge for prohibition?

Answer 37

Woman

Question 38

How did World War I affect the passage of the 18th Amendment?

Answer 38

When America entered World War I, the temperance movement argued that the grain used to make alcohol was better suited to feed American soldiers. This helped support for the 18th Amendment grow.

Question 39

What prejudice did African Americans face with landlords?

Answer 39

Landlords refused to rent homes in white areas to African Americans.

Question 40

What jobs were African Americans able to get?

Answer 40

Low-paid jobs

Question 41

During the depression of 1893, who did the jobless whites take their anger out on?

Answer 41

African Americans

WHAT DID WE DO?!

Question 42

During the depression in 1893, how many American Americans died?

Answer 42

In the 1890s, more than 1,000 African Americans were lynched—murdered by mobs.

WHY? JUST WHY? THATS ALL I WANT TO KNOW. INSTEAD OF INCREASING OUR MURDER BODY COUNT, INCREASE YOUR OTHER ONE, SUSAN!!! (Sorry to all the good Susans)

Question 43

What newspaper did Ida B. Wells write? Why?

Answer 43

“Free Speech”, because of the injustices African Americans faced

Question 44

What did Booker T. Washington and many African American want?

Answer 44

He wanted blacks and whites to live in harmony.

Question 45

What did Washington think African Americans had to do?

Answer 45

African Americans, said Washington, must work patiently to move up in society. First, he urged them to learn trades and earn money. Then, they would have the power to demand equality.

Question 46

What was Du Bois’s view on Washington’s ideas?

Answer 46

Du Bois agreed with Booker T. Washington’s view on the need for “thrift, patience, and industrial training.” However, he added, “So far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, … we must firmly oppose him.”

Question 47

What different approach did Du Bois take?

Answer 47

Instead of patiently accepting discrimination, Du Bois urged blacks to fight it actively.

Question 48

Who organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Answer 48

Du Bois, along with Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, and other reformers

Question 49

Who was in the NAACP? What did they do?

Answer 49

Blacks and whites in the NAACP worked for equal rights for African Americans.

Question 50

What did George Washington Carver do?

Answer 50

He discovered hundreds of new uses for peanuts and other crops grown in the South. His writings about crop rotation changed southern farming practices.

Question 51

What did Madame C.J. Walker do?

Answer 51

She created a line of hair care products for African American women. She became the first American woman to earn more than $1 million.

Question 52

Where did Americans of Mexica and Spanish decent mostly live?

Answer 52

Southwest and west
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They lived decent lives

Question 53

In 1900s, what caused many Mexicans so go to America?

Answer 53

revolution and famine in Mexico

Question 54

Who are Mexicanos?

Answer 54

Native-born Mexicans

Question 55

Were did most Mexican immigrants work?

Answer 55

exican immigrants worked as field hands, built roads, and dug irrigation ditches. Some lived near the railroads they helped build. Still others worked in city factories, where they faced harsh conditions.

Question 56

What jobs were Mexicans denied of? How much were they paid?

Answer 56

They were paid less than white workers and were denied skilled jobs.

Question 57

What are barrios?

Answer 57

Mexican neighborhoods

Question 58

What were barrios like?

Answer 58

There, they preserved their language and culture, celebrated traditional festivals, and shared memories of Mexico.

Question 59

Where was the largest barrios in America?

Answer 59

Los Angeles

Question 60

What are mutualistas?

Answer 60

mutual aid groups

Question 61

Who helped Mexican immigrants?

Answer 61

Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans took many steps to help each other.

Question 62

What did mutual aid groups do?

Answer 62

They pooled money to buy insurance and pay for legal advice. They also collected money for the sick and needy.

Question 63

How did West Coast and Hawaii whites get around the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 63

White employers on the West Coast and in Hawaii therefore got around the Chinese Exclusion Act by hiring workers from other Asian countries, mainly the Philippines and Japan.

Question 64

Where did most Japanese immigrants live?

Answer 64

Hawaii to work on sugar plantations.

Question 65

When did most Japanese immigrants saw a chance to do to the U.S.?

Answer 65

When the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, a number of Japanese saw the opportunity for a better life on the United States mainland.

Question 66

What job did Japanese immigrants have?

Answer 66

Farmers

Question 67

How did Japanese immigrants impact California’s agriculture?

Answer 67

They were producing a large percentage of southern California’s fruits and vegetables. Other newcomers worked in canneries, lumber mills, and mines.

Question 68

Hawaii planters bring workers from different

parts of Asia?

Answer 68

They hoped this would keep workers from uniting to demand better wages or improved working conditions.

Question 69

What prejudice did the Japanese face in California?

Answer 69

They were barred from owning land and from many economic pursuits.

Question 70

What prejudice did the Japanese face in San Francisco?

Answer 70

They forced all Asian students, including Japanese children, to attend separate schools. Japan protested the insult, and the issue threatened to cause an international crisis.

Question 71

What was the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” with Japan?

Answer 71

Japan would stop any more workers from going to the United States. The United States, in exchange, would allow Japanese women to join their husbands who were already in this country.

Question 72

Name different ways Americans discriminated against the Native Americans?

Answer 72

They had been been robbed of their lands, forced to abandon their traditional ways of survival, and were being forced to adopt white American customs.

Question 73

How were Native Americans forced to change?

Answer 73

At these schools American Indians were given new names, haircuts, and clothing, according to white American practices.

Question 74

On reservations what did Native Americans struggle with?

Answer 74

many struggled with poverty, alcohol, and a lack of employment

Question 75

Who was in the Society of American Indians?

Answer 75

It included artists, writers, Christian ministers, lawyers, and doctors from many different peoples.

Question 76

What did the Society of Indians work towards?

Answer 76

They worked for social justice and tried to educate white Americans about Indian life. However, it supported policies to force Indians into the American mainstream by abolishing reservations. This created so much opposition among American Indian groups that the Society went out of existence in 1925.

Question 77

Who encouraged blacks and whites to live in harmony and work within the system to overcome discrimination?

Answer 77

Booker T. Washington

Question 78

Why were mutualistas needed to help Mexican Americans survive in America?

Answer 78

Mexican Americans were generally paid less than white workers, and they were also often denied skilled jobs. They could not earn a lot of money. Mutualistas helped the poor Mexican Americans by helping people to pay for insurance and legal advice. The mutualistas also collected money for those who were sick or poor.

Question 79

How did the Chinese Exclusion Act account for the rise of other Asian farmers in Hawaii and on the West Coast?

Answer 79

The Chinese Exclusion Act stopped the Chinese from immigrating to America. Since cheap labor was still needed, white employers got around the laws by bringing other Asian workers, especially Japanese and Filipino farmers, into America to work.