The Rights of
Women and
Stuggles for
Justice
Reading Assessment
1) Despite their status as citizens of the US at the turn of the
century women were not allowed to ________Pin this country
2)Francis Willard was president of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Movement(WCTU)who fought for prohibition,
which is a ban on the sale and consumption of _____________
3) The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granted women
____________________
4) People who worked for women’s right to vote were
called______________________
5)True or false. Alice Paul met with President Woodrow Wilson
to fight for Chinese American’s right to vote________
Women’s Suffrage
 Following


the Civil War
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Opposed
the Fifteenth Amendment because
it gave the vote to African American men but
not women
 The


Nineteenth Amendment
Ratified in 1920
Guarantees women the right to vote
Temperance
 WCTU-Women's
Union


Christian Temperance
Frances Willard
Carry Nation
Eighteenth Amendment
Passed in 1917/ Ratified in 1919
Outlawed the sale of alcohol in the
U.S.
Reading Assessment
1)What was the name of the African-American educator
who founded the Tuskegee Institute which offered AfricanAmericans training in industrial and agricultural skills
2)Along with Jane Adams and others W.E.B. DuBois
founded the _____________ which worked for equal rights
for African-Americans.
3)George Washington Carver is famous for his work with
peanuts and other crops grown in the south
4) A parochial school is a school sponsored by
a________________
5) True or false in 1910 thousands of Mexicans fled to the
United States because of the dreaded Conchita plague.
Progressive Era?

African-Americans-Low paying jobs and take
the brunt of angry whites looking for a
scapegoat for the joblessness that results from
the depression of 1893.


Ida B. Wells- Journalist who spoke out against
lynchings and called for the boycott of white
owned businesses and city services.
Booker T. Washington-Called on Blacks to work
their way up from poverty. Founded the
Tuskegee Institute.
Progressive Era?
 W.E.B.
DuBois-Urged blacks to actively
fight against oppression and
discrimination. Founded the NAACP.
 Despite the odds many AfricanAmericans were very successful.



Washington Carver
Madame C.J. Walker
Thousands of entrepreneurs.
Progressive Era?
 Mexican
Americans-Manual labor
 Asian Americans-Refused entry to the
country, the Exclusion Act
 Native Americans-Pushed onto
reservations and then fleeced of their
land. The Dawes Act.
A Pacific Empire
 Commodore
Matthew Perry and Japan
 Seward’s Folly
 Imperialism-the policy of powerful
countries seeking to control the economic
and political affairs of weaker countries or
areas.



Raw materials and markets
Racism
Competition with other countries
A Pacific Empire
 Samoa
 Hawaii-American
interests protected by
the revolution of 1893
 Cuba-Spain-the Maine-Yellow JournalismThe Roughriders
 The Philippines
 The Panama Canal
 Mexico
 Navy