WOMEN IN THE PROGRESSIVISM ERA

By:

Isabella Milan

&

Teresa Tovar

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

Joined the suffrage movement in 1887

Took over the National American Woman's Suffrage Association

also know as the (NAWSA)

Came up with a plan to pass the 19th amendment (“Winning Plan”)

Founded the League of Women voters

Worthy succesor,increased the size of the organization and

conducted substantial fundraisers that helped the organization

Left in 1904 due to family issues,but returned after her husband

died

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

Left NAWSA to help other women around the world

Became an active pacifist in her later life

IDA B. WELLS

African American born a slave

Freed do to Emancipation Proclamation

Wrote editorials for newspaper of African Americans and the

rough situations they were going through

Teacher in segregated schools (For African Americans)

Established civil rights organizations (National association

for colored people,National association for advancement in

colored people)

NATIONAL WOMENS SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

Also known as the NWSA

Created to help women gain rights

Established by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

in 1869 when the women's right movement split in two

Wanted women to have help in various social issues such as

marriage and divorce

They condemned the 14th and 15th amendment as unjust

Unionization of women workers

ALICE PAUL

Born January 11 1885

Pushed for woman's rights movement

Returned to the U.S in 1910 and got involved in the women's suffrage

movement

At first she was part of the NAWSA but focused on state by state

campaign

A member of the National Woman's party

Preferred to lobby congress for an amendment on the constitution

Demanded constitutional amendment for the right to vote for women

Jailed various times for disorderly conduct and disturbing the

peace

Even after being debilitated from a stroke in 1974 she

continued fighting for women's rights until her death in 1977

19TH AMENDMENT

Guaranteed women the right to vote

Many Americans considered it a radical change to the

constitution

On May 21 1919 amendment was passed by representatives

then by the senate

¾ the states voted for the law to be passed

Ratified August 18 1920

Women had different strategies to gain their rights

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Men wanted to dominate

and women thought if black

men had the right to vote

why shouldn’t women have

that right to

Only when convenient were

women “people”

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FOCUS QUESTION

What were the main

goals of the Woman's

suffrage association