Unit 10 Lesson 3:Progressive Women Flashcards
What is suffrage
Suffrage is the right to vote
What were women doing during the progressive era
Women were finding their place in America. They sought to advocate for their rights, including the right to vote. Women were also trying to influence moral reforms.
Rapid growth in cities led to issues that worsened problems like poverty and unhealthy conditions. How did Women respond
Women’s groups attempted to solve problems created by urbanization and industrialization through the temperance movement.
What was the temperance movement
The temperance movement was a social movement that sought to improve family life by discouraging drinking alcohol.
Why was drinking ban
Drinking was blamed for social ills and keeping families in poverty.
What impact did Moral reformers think alchool restrication would have on prisons and mental asylums
Moral reformers thought that alcohol restriction would make prisons and mental asylums unneeded.
Why did groups like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Groups like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) formed to combat the ills of alcohol.
what did WCTU advoated for
The WCTU advocated for laws against the consumption of alcohol.
What did Nation, , an extreme advocate of temperance, do
Nation, an extreme advocate of temperance, used a hatchet to smash bottles and barrels in saloons in an effort to curb alcohol consumption.
What social ills was the temperance movement intended to address?
The temperance movement sought to improve family life by discouraging drinking alcohol. Alcohol was blamed for many of the social ills that resulted from urbanization and industrialization. Alcohol was blamed for crime, mental illness, and poverty.
What role did Carrie Nation play in the temperance movement?
Carrie Nation was an extreme temperance movement activist. She would use a hatchet to destroy alcohol supplies in saloons.
Who was Carrie Nation and ehst did she belive in
Carrie Nation, influenced by her husband’s death due to alcoholism, violently opposed alcohol consumption.
Who was Jane Addams and what did she belive in
. Jane Addams, the mother of modern social work, actively supported women’s rights and fair working conditions.
Who was Jane Addams
Addams was an activist most noted for her work with settlement houses. Settlement houses provided services to the working poor in cities. Addams would establish and work at the Hull House in Chicago.
What did Addans advocate for
Addams’ work included advocating for women’s rights, child labor laws, civil rights for African Americans, and better working conditions for laborers. Addams supported the women’s suffrage movement.
Addams was a founding member of both the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
What did women stand for long before the progressive era
Long before the Progressive Era, women wrote letters, presented lectures, lobbied, and marched for suffrage. Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt worked tirelessly to support women’s right to vote.
In the Progressive Era, these efforts intensified. Who was Alice Paul and what did she stand for
Led by Alice Paul, the National Women’s Party (NWP) used marches, picket lines, and protests to pressure the passage of laws supporting women’s suffrage.
In 1917, women began picketing outside the White House to advocate for the right to vote. What is picketing
. Picketing involves protesters standing or marching near a specific location relevant to the subject of a protest.
What was impact of women picketing outside the White House to advocate for the right to vote.
The picketing campaign lasted over two years. As a result of these tactics, President Woodrow Wilson would finally endorse women’s suffrage. In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment. It was eventually ratified in August of 1920.
What does suffrage mean?
Suffrage is the right to vote.
What activities did women use to advocate for the right to vote?
Women would march, picket, and protest in order to advocate for the passage of laws supporting women’s right to vote. Women even picketed outside of the White House.
Who were key players in the women’s suffrage movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt
Do all women of all races advocate together
Women of all races advocated for their rights and for reform, but their activities were not often combined. White women often failed to advocate for their sisters of different races.
What did reformers associate immigrants and minorites with
Reformers often associated immigrants and minorities with alcoholism, condemning women in these groups as hindrances to the temperance movement.
How did some women belive they would get the right to vote
Some white women actually argued for the right to vote by suggesting that they could offset the vote of African American men. Responses like these were rooted in white supremacy.
what the imporatnace of women socail clubs
Women used social clubs to improve their communities and expand their influence. Women’s clubs were largely comprised of privileged, well-educated women. Much suffrage advocacy was done through these organizations, but white women’s clubs did not allow women of color to be members.
separate social clubs developed, what was the name for the one for white poeple and the one for black people
White women organized the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). African American women organized the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
What were the goals of African American Women groups
African American women’s groups worked for civil rights. They sought the right to education, equal treatment before the law, and the right to vote.
Who was Mary Chruch Terrel
Mary Church Terrell was an important African American activist. She was a champion of racial equality and women’s suffrage. Terrell helped form and served as president of the NACW.
How were the goals of white and African American women’s clubs different?
The clubs of white women did not allow women of color to be members. In fact, some white women advocated for the vote specifically to offset the vote of African American men. African American women’s clubs often advocated for the right to vote as well as racial equality.
How did women advocate for the vote?
Women advocated for the right to vote through social clubs.
Why was Jane Addams an important Progressive Era reformer?
Addams is considered the mother of social work. She supported women’s suffrage and better working conditions. She was also a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What were the goals of the temperance movement?
The temperance movement was a social movement that sought to improve family life by discouraging drinking alcohol. Alcohol was blamed for many of the issues facing families and society that grew out of urbanization and industrialization.
