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WOMS300- The Progressive Era Flashcards

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Overall Progressive Era

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-Great change
-social movement
-fix corruption

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Increase in Printed Materials

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-discussed changing laws
-growth in Journalism

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Muckrakers

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Exposed people for what was happening in workplaces
-The Jungle Upton St.Clairies
-How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riss

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Pros of Industrialization

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-More job opportunities
-New technologies
-Labor reform/ Unions created
-Independence and new opportunities
-Growth in consumer products
-New social activities

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Cons of Industrialization

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-Harsh working conditions
-industry/food
-Overcrowding and slums
-Pollution increase
-Unfair working conditions
-Meatpacking and poor food quality
-Increase in crime

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The Social Gospel Movement

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-less people were going to church
-caused a moral and social reforms
-desire to fix people/save souls
goals:
-wanted to help the less fortunate
-wanted to confront crime and poverty
-reform the upper and middle class

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The Women’s Club

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-Women came together to advocate for women’s right
-Equal rights, voting, better pay
-Leaders where from christian background
-Reform for drinking carried over in the progressive era

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The Conference of 1888

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-Anniversary of seneca falls convention they had an event to remember it
-Women from all over using railroads to come together
-International council
-Women around the world were invited to come
goals: Voting, Education, Wages
outcome: Increase in women lead organization after this conference

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The National Woman’s Suffrage Association

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The National Women’s Suffrage association and the American Women’s Suffrage assocation from the reconstruction period combined

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The Southern Strategy

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-the NWSA and AWSA joined together to reach southern women
-Women in the south did not care about the right to vote
-also wanted women in the west more involved

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The National Association of Colored Women

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-goal: wanted women of color to have the right to vote along with their white counter parts
-leader: Mary Church Terrell

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Mary Church Terrell

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-middle class black women with educational background
Spoke on
-The importance of motherhood
-Segregation
-Female Reproductive rights
-Being Educated

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Women and Reproduction

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-controceptive such as Birth control and abortion were controversial
Scanton-Against BC
-underground network of abortions
-women were holding off on having children until after getting education

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Margret Sanger

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-NYC immagrnat
-advocated for birth control
-would spread info of contraceptives
-went to trial for spreading such information
-founded the American Birth Conrol League

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National Birth Control League

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-founded by upper class women and doctors
goal: open clinics, educate women

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American Birth Control League

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-leader: Margaret Sanger
-wanted all classes of womens involved
goal: open clinics, educate women

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Settlement House

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-lead by Janes Adam and Ellen Gates Star
-allowed women of different classes to live together in one hous
-offered networking and jobs
-gave community networks and education

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Temperance

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Women’s Christan Temperance League
-wanted to target alchol production and saloons themseleves

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The 18th Admendment

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you could still drink and make liquor in the home but business themselves were prohibited

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Ladies of Labor

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-founder: Nan Enstad
-talked of women’s involvement in reform in NY
-talked about the socialcultural elements for a women’s life

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Women and Leisure

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1.Social Clubs
-social activites with dancing
2. Watching Movies
3. Lesure Readings
4. Visiting the New Amusement Parks

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Increase in Materialism

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-Changing in clothes and dressing
-women began buying more than they coulf afford
-women worked in department stores

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Tenement Housing

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-Cramps living
-unsanitary conditions
-No plumbing
-Most people who lived in these houses were immigrants
-Women and children could be working within these tenement house
e.g -Rolling cigars, Making articles of clothing

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Labor Reform

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-press showing poor labor conditions
-wanted laws that gave safety and better working conditions

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Women’s Strikes

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-More strikes and unions created that were lead by women
-Big Strike in 1909
Shirt waste workers wanted better working conditions and shorted hours
-Big Strike in 1912
Women wanted shorter working hours and better pay
-in Mass

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The Children’s Crusade

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-during strike they would send children away so that they would not be in danger

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

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-jewish and itilian immagrants
-producing women’s blouses
-owners: Blanc and Harris
-hundreds of women died in a fire
-contunied to be unsafe working conditions

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3 Reasons why Women’s Right to Vote was Taking so Long

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  1. Leadership was outdated
    -disconnect between younger and older
  2. Wanted more diversity with various different women involved in the movement
  3. There were women who were against the right
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Carrie Chapman Catt

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-work towards women right to vote
-steps up from the older generation
-wanted to reach the younger generation
-worked with local communities

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Alice Paul

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-rivals with Carrie Chapman Catt
-wanted a ferederal admendement
-was against government officals
-wanted to use miltary tactics to get the right to vote

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The Winning Plan

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-Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt joined together
-Wanted to work within local government for voting and the ultimate goal was to get a federal government

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Harriet Scanton Blanch

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-Daugheter of Elizabeth Scanton
-advocated for women rights
-tired to join the working class women and college students

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