Progressive Era

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Progressive Era

• Suffrage Movement

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Predecessors to 1900s Feminism
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Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams

• 1744-1818
• Wife to President John Adams
• Urged her husband to Remember the Ladies when
  he was forming the new United States
• See letters

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Most women were not given formal educations nor
allowed to have professional jobs.
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Emma Willard

• 1787-1870
• Operated in the realm of domesticity
• Asks state of New York for public money to
  educate girls

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Emma Willard School (1821)Still an all girls
secondary boarding school. Tuition (inc. room
and board)- 33,750
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Education is on the rise. The main professional
job is teaching, although education is still
dominated by men.
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The fight for equal rights begins with the fight
against slavery (abolitionism)
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Sara Grimke

• 1792-1873
• Daughter of slave-holding judge
• Father believed in the subordination and no
  education of women
• Well-educated abolitionist
• Becomes a Quaker

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Angelina Grimke

• 1805-1879
• Saras sister
• Becomes a strong abolitionist and Quaker
• Lectures and publishes letters condeming slavery
• Opened a school with her sister

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Grimke sisters were harassed and criticized
because they dared to voice their opinions in
public with men in the audience (considered to be
promiscuous).
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Lucretia Mott

• 1793-1880
• From a Quaker family
• Abolitionist
• A teacher who discovered men were paid twice as
  much as women
• Leader of womens right movement
• Helped establish Seneca Falls Convention

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Lucy Stone
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Lucy Stone

• 1818-1893
• Father against education for women
• Graduated from Oberlin College 1847
• Lectured against slavery
• Helped organize American Woman Suffrage
  Organization

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Many women who fought early on for womens rights
had supportive husbands who also believed in
equality between the sexes. Is there a
connection between the men these women married
and their accomplishments?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Stanton powerful womens rights leader.

• 1815-1902
• Quaker teacher and abolitionist
• Force behind Seneca Falls Convention
• Wrote Declaration of Sentiments
• Later fought for women suffrage

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Susan B. Anthony

• 1820-1906
• Quaker abolitionist (although criticized for
  racist writings)
• She never married
• Worked on Seneca Falls Convention
• Was arrested for trying to vote in 1872 with the
  passage of the 15th Amendment

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Inseparable Pair- Stanton and Anthony

• Seneca Falls Convention- July 19-20, 1848
• To convince others for more womens rights
• Formed the National Women Suffrage Association

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Womens Christian Temperance Movement

• Organized in 1874
• Believed alcohol was the cause of problems with
  society and families
• Would march to saloons and sing hyms
• Acceptable political activity for women to be
  involved
• Eventually endorsed womens suffrage

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Progressive Suffragetts
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Anna Shaw

• 1847-1919
• Immigrated from England 1851
• Methodist minister (first woman)
• doctor
• Joined WCTU
• Pres. National American Women Suffrage
  Organization

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Shaws short teaching career

• Began teaching at 15 years old
• Worked 5 miles from home
• Roomed with students family
• Paid 2 a week for teaching
• Was paid at the end of the year
• Enrolled in a high school after one year

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Jane Addams

• 1860-1935
• Graduated from Rockford College
• Founded Settlement House Movement (Hull House)
• Worked for Womens Suffrage

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Jane Addams Cont.

• Against World War I
• Helped found NAACP
• 1931 Received Nobel Peace Prize (1st American
  Woman)

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Florence Kelley

• 1859-1932
• PhD Sociology (University of Zurich)
• Beaten by husband until she escaped to Hull House
  where she began working
• Organized boycotts of sweatshop products
• Worked for child labor laws and womens suffrage
• Helped organize NAACP

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Carrie Chapman Catt

• 1859-1947
• Graduated from Iowa State College 1880
• National American Women Suffrage Organization
• 1st pres. League of Women Voters

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Alice Paul

• 1885-1977
• Another Quaker
• Part of NAWSO but split and began Congressional
  Union for Women Suffrage
• Coordinated many marches for suffrage

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Suffragettes March for Votes
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Some states allow women the right to vote.

• Wyoming, Montana
• Why Western, under-populated states first?

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Jeanette Rankin

• First female U.S. House of Representative
• From Montana
• 1916

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Votes for Women Granted 1919!

• 19th amendment