Progressive Women Women

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Progressive WomenWomens SuffrageProhibition

• Win the Vote!
• End the Drink!

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Womens Suffrage

• Suffrage right to vote
• Women denied the vote
• Inferior to men
• Denied equal rights
• Progressive women begin to protest for the vote
  equal treatment

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
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National Womens Suffrage Association

• Founded in 1869 by Cady Anthony
• Goals
• Suffrage
• Equal rights
• Easier divorce
• Equal pay
• Able to join labor unions

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NWSA Executives
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Suffrage in the West

• Many western states allow women the vote
• Suffragettes protest for national suffrage
• Lucy Stone

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The Awakening
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Anti-Suffrage
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Women Win the Vote!

• 1919 Congress approves the 19th Amendment
• August 26, 1920 19th Amendment ratified by
  states approved
• Women guaranteed suffrage (vote)

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Prohibition

• Progressives want to improve morals
• Alcohol blamed
• Caused break-up of families unemployment
• Alcohol seen as un-American, immigrants
• Anti-Saloon League
• Womens Christian Temperance Union

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Carry A. Nation

• Attacked saloons
• Believed it was Gods work
• "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus,
  barking at what he doesn't like,"
• "rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, saturn-faced
  rummies."
• Arrested 30 times

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America Goes Dry

• http//www.westervillelibrary.org/AntiSaloon/print
  ed_material/fliers.html
• 18th Amendment passed in 1917
• Ratified in 1919
• Outlaws the sale, manufacture distribution of
  alcohol