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Seneca Falls Convention
By Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Declaration of Sentiments: blueprint for suffrage movement -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Lead by Francis Willard. Inspired religious morals and wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke, and much more due to drinking. The Unions lobbied for alcohol bans and set up anti-alcohol education programs -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws separating white and black people in public facilities -
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
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National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
First President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Goal: get most states to pass women's suffrage, but Congress must pass an amendment. They had a three-part strategy. The first one was to convince state legislatures to give women the right to vote. The second one was that they tried to trick the 14th amendment. The last one was to get an amendment to the constitution. -
Anti-Saloon League
They wanted to make cities safer, workers to be more efficient, and to help Americanize immigrants. It took over prohibition movement in the early 1900s. It was supported by industrialists, who wanted more efficient workers. Tension among immigrants included some of them having cultural ties with alcohol. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 African American. Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th amendment. "separate but not equal". legalized racial segregation for 60 years. -
Carrie Chapman Cat
Elected NAWSA president. She brought national attention to the movement and changed tactics of suffragists. She also started mass meetings, suffrage parades, and propaganda, which means exaggerated news. -
New York Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation. There was a minimum size, and window requirements, along with one bathroom for every two families. There was also indoor plumbing. The law also set up the Tenement House Department to perform inspections. -
National Child Labor Committee
collecting evidence, documenting child labor, hired photographers to photograph child labor -
Meat Inspection Act
authorized federal inspection of meat products. Meat sources were inspected before and after death. There were sanitary standards in slaughterhouses and processing plants. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
regulated production of sales of food and medicines. It prevented poisonous or spoiled products for being sold. They also later formed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
exposed horrible conditions in the meat packing industry, and lead to huge reforms in the food industry -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
by W.E.B. Du Bois. The goal of this association was to get equal rights for all African Americans. The tactic was to change the laws -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Triangle system was better than other systems because it was a much more modern environment. The owners kept the Washington Place exit locked so that no other people would sneak out of work. However, this is a disadvantage when a fire occurs. When the fire occurred because of a drop cigarette, many of the workers could not escape and died because of the locked doors. The only few ways to escape were out the window, which some fell to their deaths, passenger elevators, and narrow aisles -
17th Amendment
direct election of senators -
18th Amendment
Congress passed the 18th amendment, which banned "manufacture, sale, transportation" or alcohol. However, it was not illegal to drink. The amendment was easily ratified. -
19th Amendment
29 states have full or partial women's suffrage. President Woodrow Wilson gives in to thank the women who had helped and participated in WWI. Congress passes amendment, and it becomes ratified in August 1920
