Settlement House, Temperance, to Suffrage

Women’s Struggle for the 19th

Settlement House

Louis Brandeis

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

• 1874• Frances Willard – leader• Prohibition of alcohol – main goal

– City sins – prostitution, political corruption– Domestic abuse– Poor– Immigrants

• Taught women: lobby, raise $, run for office

Willard

Carrie Nation

Margaret Sanger

Suffrage

Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Catt

Suffrage

• 2 groups emerge during WWI– National Women’s Party (NWP)

• Alice Paul• Against the war• Militant – marches and hunger strikes

– National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)

• Catt• Supported Wilson’s re-election• Strong women involvement in war

Alice Paul

19th Amendment

• Wilson pushes for it– Strength of NAWSA patriotism– Annoyance of NWP

• Ratified in 1920!!!