Unit 10 Lesson 3:Progressive Women

Question 1

What is suffrage

Answer 1

Suffrage is the right to vote

Question 2

What were women doing during the progressive era

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Rapid growth in cities led to issues that worsened problems like poverty and unhealthy conditions. How did Women respond

Answer 3

Women’s groups attempted to solve problems created by urbanization and industrialization through the temperance movement.

Question 4

What was the temperance movement

Answer 4

The temperance movement was a social movement that sought to improve family life by discouraging drinking alcohol.

Question 5

Why was drinking ban

Answer 5

Drinking was blamed for social ills and keeping families in poverty.

Question 6

What impact did Moral reformers think alchool restrication would have on prisons and mental asylums

Answer 6

Moral reformers thought that alcohol restriction would make prisons and mental asylums unneeded.

Question 7

Why did groups like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Answer 7

Groups like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) formed to combat the ills of alcohol.

Question 8

what did WCTU advoated for

Answer 8

The WCTU advocated for laws against the consumption of alcohol.

Question 9

What did Nation, , an extreme advocate of temperance, do

Answer 9

Nation, an extreme advocate of temperance, used a hatchet to smash bottles and barrels in saloons in an effort to curb alcohol consumption.

Question 10

What social ills was the temperance movement intended to address?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What role did Carrie Nation play in the temperance movement?

Answer 11

Carrie Nation was an extreme temperance movement activist. She would use a hatchet to destroy alcohol supplies in saloons.

Question 12

Who was Carrie Nation and ehst did she belive in

Answer 12

Carrie Nation, influenced by her husband’s death due to alcoholism, violently opposed alcohol consumption.

Question 13

Who was Jane Addams and what did she belive in

Answer 13

. Jane Addams, the mother of modern social work, actively supported women’s rights and fair working conditions.

Question 14

Who was Jane Addams

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What did Addans advocate for

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Addams was a founding member of both the

Answer 16

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Question 17

What did women stand for long before the progressive era

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

In the Progressive Era, these efforts intensified. Who was Alice Paul and what did she stand for

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

In 1917, women began picketing outside the White House to advocate for the right to vote. What is picketing

Answer 19

. Picketing involves protesters standing or marching near a specific location relevant to the subject of a protest.

Question 20

What was impact of women picketing outside the White House to advocate for the right to vote.

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 21

Suffrage is the right to vote.

Question 22

What activities did women use to advocate for the right to vote?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Who were key players in the women’s suffrage movement?

Answer 23

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 24

Do all women of all races advocate together

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

What did reformers associate immigrants and minorites with

Answer 25

Reformers often associated immigrants and minorities with alcoholism, condemning women in these groups as hindrances to the temperance movement.

Question 26

How did some women belive they would get the right to vote

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

what the imporatnace of women socail clubs

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

separate social clubs developed, what was the name for the one for white poeple and the one for black people

Answer 28

White women organized the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). African American women organized the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).

Question 29

What were the goals of African American Women groups

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

Who was Mary Chruch Terrel

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

How were the goals of white and African American women’s clubs different?

Answer 31

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.

Question 32

How did women advocate for the vote?

Answer 32

Women advocated for the right to vote through social clubs.

Question 33

Why was Jane Addams an important Progressive Era reformer?

Answer 33

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)

Question 34

What were the goals of the temperance movement?

Answer 34

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.