Download 22-4 Women Win Reforms

What is your reaction?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOHPf
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• How does it make you feel to hear these
• things?
• Do you think this treatment was fair? Why
did it take place?
• Could you relate the treatment of women
in this video, to anything else that we
learned about this year? If so, what?
Take Aways
• Poor treatment of women
• Prohibition
• Racial Tensions
National Women’s Suffrage
Association (NWSA)
• Led by Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
– Later Carrie Chapman Catt
• Women won the right to
vote in Wyoming, Utah,
Colorado, and Idaho
• Carrie Chapman Catt- state
by state approach
Suffragists
• Alice Paul led the new wave of suffragists
• In 1919 Congress passed the 19th
Amendment allowing women to vote
The Crusade Against
Alcohol
• Temperance movement- end
the sale of alcohol
• Women led the fight against
alcohol
– Negative effect on their families
– Drinking often caused violence
and economic hardship
The WCTU
• WCTU- the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union.
– fought for the ban of alcohol
Carrie Nation
• Radical leader of
temperance
movement
• Smashed bottles and
kegs
Bill and Lois Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm_hAOLfY0k&feature=channel
The Eighteenth Amendment
• The Eighteenth Amendment
– Made it illegal to sell alcohol anywhere in the
U.S.
– The amendment gained more support in 1917
as the U.S. entered WWI.
– Temperance supporters said that the grain
used to make liquor should be used to feed
the soldiers in the War.