Women Win ReformsChapter 22/Section 4

What are rights?

•Are you born with them?•Are they granted to you?•Can you lose them?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

In what areas did women lack rights?

Voting

Educational Opportunities

Rights to Own Property

How would the progressive movement encourage women to fight for rights?

How would the Industrial Revolution encourage women to fight for rights?

Name some powerful women

•What’s given them the opportunity to be so powerful?

The Leaders

Outside Perspectives

Women’s Suffrage

•First states to allow: Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho

•Why would it be the western states?

Women in the states

•Many western and mid-western states began allowing women to vote in state elections, but not federal. Why?

•Why would it take longer for eastern states to allow suffrage?

Wilson’s Reaction

•Wilson told Alice Paul (suffragette) and others that he supported women’s suffrage; however, he did not support a Constitutional Amendment

•Did he really support them then?

In response, the suffragettes said…

And they kept picketing…

Finally, the 19th Amendment

•Passed in 1919•Guaranteed women the right to vote•Doubled the pool of eligible voters

Women and Prohibition

•The Temperance movement sought to ban the use of alcohol

•Women comprised the key component of this movement▫Women’s Christian Temperance Union

(WCTU)

Important Ladies•Frances Willard

▫Led WCTU▫Also fought for federal

aid in education, free school lunches, labor unions, 8-hour work day, sanitation departments, national transportation, anti-rape laws, protections against child abuse

Important Ladies

•Carrie Nation▫Extremist member of the

Temperance movement▫Believed she was doing

God’s will by destroying bars

▫“Demon rum”▫Went by Carry A. Nation

Dude, it’s a tomahawk… and a Bible…

18th Amendment

•Made alcohol illegal in the United States•Passed in 1917

Quick Pros and ConsReasons to Ban Alcohol Reasons to Allow Alcohol

You are a reformer

•Choose either Women’s Suffrage or Temperance

•Create 3 slogans for your cause