Kent Chronicles Suffrage and Prohibition
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Kent ChroniclesSuffrage and Prohibition
Intertwined Progressive Amendments to the Constitution
May, 2013
Interconnected Reform Groups
• Abolitionists
• Suffragettes
• Prohibitions
Interrelated groups;Suffrage and Prohibition learned about social reform from the Abolitionists, then fed off the energy of one another
Women’s Suffrage
• World Anti-Slavery Convention
• Seneca Falls, NY
• The Declaration of Sentiments
Education
Suffragette Split
• 15th Amendment
• Susan B. Anthony• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucy Stone• Julia Ward Howe
National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman’s Party
• Alice Paul• Lucy Burns
19th Amendment
Now What?
• League of Women Voters
Changing Role for Women• More opportunities for work• Refused to return to Victorian society• Really, this was only in the Cities
Switching Gears
Prohibition Laws
• Wartime Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
Dries
• Washingtonians
• Women’s Christian Temperance Movement– Frances Willard– Carrie Nation
• Prohibition Party
• Anti-Saloon League
Wets
• The German American League– Adolphus Busch
• Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
• Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform– Pauline Sabin
Everybody Else
• “Capital T” Total Abstinence
• Or
• Scofflaws
Unintended Consequences
• Stockpiled
• Bootlegging
• Rum running
Organized Crime
• Al Capone
• Roy Olmstead
• Wood Alcohol poisoning
DIY Booze• Grape Bricks
• Home Stills
• Home Brewing
Unintended Consequences
• Loss of Federal Government Revenue
Killing Prohibition
• Speakeasies.
21st Amendment
Lest we forget