Monday: Chapter 9 Presentations. Taking notes on here: Chapter 9 Notes
Tuesday: ITED testing. No class.
Wednesday: Notes. Chapter 9 Notes.
Ch. 9.2.
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
Many more women were getting an education
Many became teachers
Help push for the passing of the 18th and 19th Amendments to the US Constitution
Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
The Push for Equality
1848 - Seneca Falls Declaration: Plea for the end of discrimination against women in all spheres of society
Women in the mid-late 1800’s and early 1900’s pushed for four things:
1) Abolition of slavery (13th Amendment-1865)
2) Temperance (18th Amendment-1920)
3) Women’s suffrage (19th Amendment-1920)
4) Child Labor Laws
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Both were furious that Congress had given the right to vote to black men but denied it to women.
Were part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association led by Anthony Staton
Jeannette Rankin
Worked to win suffrage in Washington state
Was elected the first woman in Congress in 1916.
Voted against war in WW1 and WW2 (only vote)
-Other
Middle class women are generally to devote their time.
19th century - Middle and upper class could afford
Bedsides just working in the house(cooking, laundry, and making clothes) they also had to work outside raising livestock
Woman in the industry
Better paying opportunities became available
Woman have started to work in offices, stores, and classrooms
More women were graduating high school by 1890.
Women with formal work education worked for other families
Thursday: Chapter 9 Notes
Friday: No school
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