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Yesterdays Assignment
Susan B. Anthony
What was useful in Anthonys actions?
What was not useful?
Were her actions beneficial to Womens suffrage overall?
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Notes Chapter 9 Section 1
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Tuesday - October 14, 2014
Chapter Main Idea: Amid great political and social
change, women gain a larger public role and lead the
call for reform. President Theodore Roosevelt dubs his
reform policies a Square Deal.

Essential Question: Can REFORM MOVEMENTS IMPROVE
AMERICAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS?
The Origins of Progressivism
Main Idea: Political, economic, and social change in
late 19th century America leads to broad progressive
reforms.
Why it matters now: Progressive reforms in areas
such as labor and voting rights reinforced democratic
principles that continue to exist today
Concerns of Progressives
Early 1900s, middle-class reformers address problems of 1890s
Different reform efforts collectively called progressive
movement
Reformers aim to restore economic opportunity, correct
injustice by:
protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement
creating economic reform, fostering efficiency
Protecting Social Welfare
Social Gospel, settlement houses inspire other reform groups
Florence Kelley, political activist, advocate for women,
children
helps pass law prohibiting child labor, limiting womens hours
Promoting Moral Improvement
Some feel poor should uplift selves by
improving own behavior
Prohibitionbanning of alcoholic drinks
Womans Christian Temperance Union
spearheads prohibition crusade
Creating Economic Reform
1893 panic prompts doubts about capitalism;
many become socialists
Muckrakersjournalists who expose
corruption in politics, business
How did reformers try to make businesses more efficient and profitable?
Fostering Efficiency
Many use experts, science to make society, workplace more efficient
Louis D. Brandeis uses social scientists data in trial
Scientific managementtime and motion studies applied to
workplace
Assembly lines speed up production, make people work like
machines
cause high worker turnover

How did reformers try to make businesses more efficient and profitable?
Reforming Local Government
Reformers try to make
government efficient, responsive
to voters
Some cities adopt government by
commission of experts
Many use council-manager:
people elect council that appoints
manager
Reform Mayors
Hazen Pingree of Detroit tackles
taxes, transit fares, corruption
Socialist Tom Johnson of
Cleveland fights corrupt utility
companies
How did the commission system help clean up city government?
Reform Governors
Governors push states to pass laws to
regulate large businesses
Robert M. La Follette is 3-term
governor, then senator of Wisconsin
attacks big business
Protecting Working Children
Child workers get lower wages, small
hands handle small parts better
families need childrens wages
National Child Labor Committee
gathers evidence of harsh conditions
Labor unions argue childrens wages
lower all wages
Groups press government to ban
child labor, cut hours
Efforts to Limit Working Hours
Muller v. OregonCourt upholds limiting women to
10-hour workday
Bunting v. Oregonupholds 10-hour workday for men
Reformers win workers compensation for families of
injured, killed
Reforming Elections
Oregon adopts secret ballot, initiative, referendum,
recall
Initiativebill proposed by people, not lawmakers,
put on ballots
Referendumvoters, not legislature, decide if
initiative becomes law
Recallvoters remove elected official through early
election
Primaries allow voters, not party machines, to choose
candidates
Direct Election of Senators
Seventeenth Amendment senators are elected
directly by the people; not state lawmakers
What are three ways progressive reforms helped ordinary people?
What are three ways progressive reforms helped
ordinary people?

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1. What were the four goals of progressivism?
2. What did the 17
th
amendment do?
3. Which of the three jobs women held without
formal education did most women perform?
4. What is suffrage?
5. What were the three different strategies for
womens suffrage?

Women in Public Life
Main Idea: As a result of social and economic change,
many women enter public life as workers and
reformers.
Why it matters now: Women won new opportunities
in labor and education that are enjoyed today.

Changing Patterns of Living
Only middle-, upper-class women can devote selves to
home, family
Poor women usually have to work for wages outside
home
Farm Women
On Southern, Midwestern farms, womens roles same as
before
Perform household tasks, raise livestock, help with
crops
Women in Industry
After 1900, 1 in 5 women hold jobs; 25% in
manufacturing
50% industrial workers in garment trade; earn half of
mens wages
Jobs in offices, stores, classrooms require high school
education
Business schools train bookkeepers, stenographers,
typists
Domestic Workers
In 1870, 70% of employed
women do domestic work
Many African-American,
immigrant women do domestic
labor
married immigrants take in
piecework, boarders

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What are three jobs that women without a formal education often held? Is this still the case today?
Women Get Involved
Many female industrial workers seek to
reform working conditions
Women form cultural clubs, sometimes
become reform groups
Women in Higher Education
Many women active in public life have
attended new womens colleges
50% college-educated women never
marry; many work on social reforms

Women and Reform
Women reformers target workplace,
housing, education, food, drugs
National Association of Colored Women
(NACW)child care, education
Susan B. Anthony of National American
Woman Suffrage Assoc. (NAWSA)
works for woman suffrage, or right to vote
A Three-Part Strategy for Suffrage
Convince state legislatures to give women
right to vote
Test 14th Amendmentstates lose
representation if deny men vote
Push for constitutional amendment to give
women the vote
What are three ways in which women tried to win the vote?
1. What were the four goals of progressivism?
2. What did the 17
th
amendment do?
3. Which of the three jobs women held
without formal education did most women
perform?
4. What is suffrage?
5. What were the three different strategies for
womens suffrage?
One method women used to gain support for
suffrage was to picket or strike
For todays assignment you will create a placard
or sign that demonstrators in favor of woman
suffrage or any reformer at the turn of the
century might carry
Placard defined as - A poster or sign for public
display, either fixed to a wall or carried during a
demonstration.
Use a slogan, facts or powerful images to
support the effort in your poster
On the back of your placard, write me a
paragraph telling me what the goal of your
sign is, and why you think it is effective
You have 20 minutes to complete this and prepare a
presentation for your class!