Unit 2 Lecture 2 Flashcards
What were the two major reforms during the WW1 & the end of the progressive era?
- Women Suffrage
- Prohibtion
Where was the 1st demand for women to have the right to vote?
Seneca falls 1848
Women’s organizations backed ______ in 1916 election because they believed he would be a strong advocate to get women the right to vote
Wilson
NAWSA did what?
Political supported the war efforts, affetced change through political participation to show why women should be able to vote & belived that the war was a great opporunity for women to show their patriotism & prove their worth (to get them the right to vote)
What were the two type of suffrage groups?
- National American women’s suffrage assiociation (NAWSA)
- National women party (NWP)
National Women Party (NWP)
They were a radical miltant & had agressive ways of trying to get women the right to vote & they were called the silent sentinels
During the prohibtion reform movment what happened?
The government became more involved in people’s lives
18th amendment did what?
Ban making, selling, or drinking alcohol
__________ thoguht the movement would make soceity better since they seen alcohol as the root to problems like domestic abuse, etc
Prohibitionist (believed patriotic people dont drink)
Wartime Conservation
Government regulated the amount of grains people had access to (Was part of patrotic duty & war effort not to consume grains)
Committee on public information (CPI)
Organized the public relationship campaign of national unity (Government promoted people supporting the war effort as national humanity)
_______ was the biggest propaganda machine whose main focus was getting support for the war & was led by George Krill
CPI
_________ didnt like immigrants or african americans & seen immigrants as a threat
Nativism (Native born americans)
_______ didn’t like seening immigrants voice their conerns & problems about them not being able to go back home which resulted in them going on strike for better work conditions
Nativist
American protective league
A vigilante group that was encouraged to spy on co-workers & everyone ( round up people avioded serving the war(slackers) )