Changing Roles For Women

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady

StantonCarrie Nation

Page 4Obj. 7.5.3 Describe the changing roles of women and their influence on reform.

Key Points:

Settlement houses – community center that provided assistance to residents (usually women and immigrants) in a slum neighborhood. EXAMPLE- Hull House run by Jane Addams

Jane Addams – Hull House in Chicago; a wealthy woman who wanted to help the poor. Hull House had a full program of services, classes and clubs. They had over 90 volunteers.

Temperance Movement: composed of groups against the making and consumption of alcohol- Supported the 18th amendment

Carry Nation –campaigned for prohibition. She helped bring about the 18th amendment. She used harsh measures to get her message across. (Smashed saloons with hatchet.)

women’s suffrage- increased educational opportunities, attaining voting rights, 19th amendment passed

Susan B. Anthony –worked for women’s suffrage (vote)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton-worked for women’s suffrage (vote)

Jane Addams & Settlement Houses

• Jane Addams is best known as the founder of Hull House, a place that provided aid to poor working-class families in Chicago.

• She founded the Hull House, a settlement house.

• Settlement houses-Most were large buildings in crowded immigrant neighborhoods of industrial cities, where settlement workers provided services for neighbors and sought to remedy poverty.

The Hull House complex once covered a city block on Chicago's West Side; only the original Hull mansion, now a museum, remains.

Boys at work in the Hull House wood shop in 1911. Teaching immigrant youths useful trades was an important part of the settlement's mission.

Scenes around Hull House

Jane Addams

Temperance MovementPROBLEM=alcohol

• Temperance was an organized American movement that began in the mid-1800s to urge prohibition of the manufacture and consumption of all alcoholic beverages.

• The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is a prominent example of a religion-based temperance movement. These groups exerted political influence and forced the issue of prohibition into the election process.

• The passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition Amendment) is a result of the Temperance Movement.

Cary ‘The Hatchet’ Nation

• This hatchet-wielding crusader is remembered for her attacks on liquor establishments in Kansas and other states during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• She was arrested 30 times between 1900 and 1910, but her antics drew national attention to the issue of alcohol prohibition in the United States.

Carry Nation Home, Medicine Lodge, Barber County,

Kansas

Carry A. Nation Stickpin

On Dec. 27, 1900, Nation brought her campaign to Wichita, Kan., where she smashed the bar at the Carey Hotel. This first public demonstration kicked off her harangue on hooch, which continued for 10 years. But her public protests didn’t stop there … Nation stood on her soapbox against foreign goods, corsets, tobacco, fraternal orders and, most importantly, short skirts.

Women’s Suffrage(Right to Vote)

• The term woman's suffrage refer to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women.

• 19th amendment passed in 1919 granting women suffrage

• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton spent their lives working for women’s suffrage.

Susan B. Anthony

It was in this red brick house, shared with her sister Mary, that Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872. Here, in the parlor, she met and planned with famous reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass.

This cartoon shows Susan B. Anthony chasing after President Grover

Cleveland in her fight for women's right to vote

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first leaders of the American

woman's rights movement