SUFFRAGE AND TEMPERANCE

At the turn of the century, what was life like for women in America?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

What was happening in the Women’s Movement? How did progressives attempt to solve the problems of women?
http://www.gate.net/~liz/suffrage/index.html

National Women’s Suffrage Association

What were the first states to allow voting?
    http://www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/fame.html
    http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html
    Susan B. Anthony
   
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls
   
Alice Paul
http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/library/bio/blbio_paul_alice.htm?terms=alice+paul
    Carrie Chapman Catt
http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biography.com%2Ffeatures%2Fwomenhist%2F0304catt.html
    League of Womens’ Voters (Today)
http://www.lwv.org/
    19th Amendment
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/19th/19th.html

What problems existed concerning alcohol?
http://superthing.shellx.cx/APExperts/prohibition.shtml
    Immigrants
   
Temperance

How did progressives attempt to solve the problem of alcoholism?
   
18th amendment
   
Carrie Nation and her hatchet - Women’s ChristianTemperance Union
   
Anti-Saloon League
http://www.wctu.org/
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/wctu.html
    The Prohibition Party
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/related/Party.html

What was the reaction to new restrictions on alcohol?

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