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What Progress was made for Women 1900-1920 - Coggle Diagram
What Progress was made for Women
1900-1920
The period of 1900-1920 was called the 'Women's Era / Progressive Era'
African American women are working as sevants
150,000 members in WCTU
CONSUMERS FOR THE HOME; labor-saving devices like the washing machine, companies are changing their advertising to attract women (acknowledges women)
Birth Control
Birth Control - women wanted to limit when they had children so they are able to work.
Margret Sanger set up a clinic giving birth control to immigrants and other women to prevent back alley abortions.
Sanger was later arrested in 1916
The Birth Control movement brought all women together
Women now had the right to own property, earn (control) wages < 5 million women had more economic opportunities
White women can become office workers and phone callers
More educational opportunities for women
Women in congress - Jeannette Rankin in 1917
19th Amendement 1920 - Women can vote!
NAWASA - Nativist Arguments to vote, newly educated leaders.
Womens stance on war divided them
The 18th Amendment overshadowed the 19th Amendement
Women campaigned for more money to be put into healthcare (TB Tuberculosis)
Hull House - Jane Addams, A settlement house (essentially a settlement house for homeless women and immigrants
Hunger strikes by female activists to gain publicity
Some states like Wyoming already had the vote so it wasn't a big deal for it to be allowed nationally.