What is your reaction?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOHPfsCtFo

• How does it make you feel to hear these • things?• Do you think this treatment was fair? Why

did it take place?• Could you relate the treatment of women

in this video, to anything else that we learned about this year? If so, what?

Take Aways

• Poor treatment of women• Prohibition• Racial Tensions

National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA)

• Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony– Later Carrie Chapman Catt

• Women won the right to vote in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho

• Carrie Chapman Catt- state by state approach

Suffragists• Alice Paul led the new wave of suffragists• In 1919 Congress passed the 19th

Amendment allowing women to vote

The Crusade Against Alcohol

• Temperance movement- end the sale of alcohol

• Women led the fight against alcohol

– Negative effect on their families– Drinking often caused violence

and economic hardship

The WCTU• WCTU- the Women’s Christian

Temperance Union.

– fought for the ban of alcohol

Carrie Nation• Radical leader of

temperance movement

• Smashed bottles and kegs

Bill and Lois Wilson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm_hAOLfY0k&feature=channel

The Eighteenth Amendment

• The Eighteenth Amendment– Made it illegal to sell alcohol anywhere in the

U.S.– The amendment gained more support in 1917

as the U.S. entered WWI.– Temperance supporters said that the grain

used to make liquor should be used to feed the soldiers in the War.