2. Factors Involved Education Limiting Work hours Muller v. Oregon: Supreme court ruling that decided long working hours was harmful and unconstitutional Women needed to be mothers Worked against women in that it was used as a case to pay women less
3. Florence Kelley National Consumers League (NCL) Gave labels to safe produce and healthy working conditions Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) Created the first workers right fund Pushed for a minimum wage and 8 hour work days
4. Family Life Temperance Movement The idea that alcohol led to family problems Fewer Children Margaret Sanger: developed the first birth control clinic in 1921 Ida B. Wells Black teacher National Association of Colored Women
5. Fight for Suffrage Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Carrie Chapman Catt Lawyer and Superintendent National American Suffrage Association (NAWSA) 2 fronts: Congress and on a state level Alice Paul National Woman’s Party First group to picket outside the White House World War I supported by Catt and Kelley Nineteenth Amendment Voting shall not be denied or abridge on account of sex
6. Suffrage World War I broke out supported by Catt and Kelley Nineteenth Amendment Voting shall not be denied or abridge on account of sex November 2, 1920 women voted for the first time
7. Discrimination Progressives supported whites but minorities were still struggling for rights Progressives looked down on immigrants for issues such as their tendency to drink alcohol Scientific theories stated that blacks were less intelligent Used to keep African Americans from voting
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9. Discrimination cont… Anti-Defamation League Defended Jews and others against physical and verbal attacks Mutualistas Groups that made loans and provided legal assistance. Native Americans Largely forgotten by the progressive movement
