1890: National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA was formed

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1890 National American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA) was formed -Elizabeth Cady
Stanton -Susan B. Anthony
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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
WOMEN

• 1900 More than 5 million women work
• More women than men graduated from high school
  but most professions were closed to them
• Women attended new business schools training
  in stenography, typing, bookkeeping

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
WOMEN

• 1900 1920 The Birth rate continued to drop
• 1916 1 in every 9 marriages ended in divorce,
  compared to 1 in 21 in 1880

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
WOMEN

• Ida Tarbell
• Editor in Chief McClures Magazine
• Muckraking magazine that examined and exposed the
  lives of the working class during the Progressive
  Era

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1915 Carrie Chapman Catt-became President of
NAWSA -Used Grassroot campaigns
1915 Carrie Chapman Catt-became President of
NAWSA Used Grassroot campaigns
1915 Carrie Chapman Catt-became President of
NAWSA Used Grassroot campaigns
1915 Carrie Chapman Catt-became President of
NAWSA Used Grassroot campaigns
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-Alice Paul-Congressional Union (1913) became
National Womans Party -Would picket Woodrow
Wilsons home -Hunger Strikes
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• 1920? 19th Amendment-women were able to vote

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Prohibition

• 18th Amendment
• Gangsters would get alcohol from Canada,
  distribute it to speakeasies
• Al Capone (Chicago) controlled alcohol industry
• Blood shed increased over control of market

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Prohibition Contd

• Bloodshed caused many in the cities to withdraw
  their support of Prohibition
• Rural areas remained supportive
• Reaffirmed their beliefs (alcohol caused people
  to do evil things)

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• Violence was common
• 1900 1914 White mobs murdered more than 1,00
  black people mutilating them and burning them
  alive
• Race Riots broke out
• 1906 Atlanta, Georgia
• 1908 Springfield, Illinois

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• Often illiterate they were forced to sign
  contracts tying them to their jobs
• Armed guards controlled camps and whipped anyone
  caught trying to escape

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• Few Unions admitted blacks
• Illiteracy rate dropped from 14 in 1900 to 30
  in 1910
• However, they didnt have equal school
  facilities, teachers salaries and education
  materials

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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• Niagara Movement
• Claimed for blacks, every single right that
  belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil,
  and social and until we get these rights we will
  never cease to protest. W.E.B. DuBois

CIVIL REFORMERS
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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• NAACP
• Founded by William E. Walling wealthy
  southerner Settlement house worker Mary
  Ovington, a white anthropology student and
  Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the famous
  abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison

CIVIL REFORMERS
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The Progressive Era 1900 - 1920
Race Relations

• NAACP cont
• By 1910 it had more than 6,000 members
• Of top 8 officers DuBois was the only black
• 1911 with National Urban League the NAACP
  pressured employers, labor unions and government
  on behalf of African Americans

CIVIL REFORMERS
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NAACP