The Progressive Era in the US : Women's Struggle for their Right of Suffrage

The Orthodox Perspective

The Transnational Perspective

The Revisionist Perspective

Periodization

Map

American Presidents of the Progressive Era

The Book: Through Women's Eyes (2005)

The Book: Votes for Women! The American Woman Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth Amendment (2020)

The article: the Woman Qestion (1879)

(1890–1920)

Author: Marion W. Roydhouse

A native of New Zealand, who earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Canterbury and her Ph.D., from Duke University.

Authors: Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil

She is a professor of history and gender studies. She has taught at the University at Buffalo and ended her career at the University of California, Los Angeles. DuBois retired from UCLA in 2017. She is known for her pioneering work in women's history and for her history books

the Author: Francis Parkman

Parkman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a member of a distinguished Boston family.

Lynn Dumenil is an American historian. She received her BA degree from USC. She received her MA and Ph.D from UC Berkeley. She is currently the Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College and a member of the Organization of American Historians

William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President

Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President

Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President

Major Themes

Government reform

Temperance Movement

Family and food

Muckraking: exposing corruption

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Primary Sources

Propponants

Opponants

the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)

the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (MAOFESW)

The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS)

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Historians of The Progressive era

Progressive movement

Consensus movement

Harold U. Faulkner

Richard Hofstadter

major achievements of the Progressive movement

Pure Food and Drug Act

The Sixteenth Amendment

The Meat Inspection Act

The Seventeenth Amendment

Election reform

Prohibition

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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women's suffrage

The Age of Reform, (1955)

The Quest for Social
Justice, 1898-1914

progressivism was a WASP movement, strongly
influenced by Protestant morality and its idea of personal guilt.