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Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments: blueprint for suffrage movement -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
• Formed in 1874
• Led by Francis Willard
• Inspired by religious moral AND wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke etc. due to drinking
• Lobbies for local alcohol bans
• Anti-alcohol education programs -
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
First President: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Goal: gets most states to pass woman’s suffrage --> Congress must pass an amendment -
Anti-Saloon League
Make cities safer
Workers would be more efficient
Help to Americanize immigrants -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th Amendment
“Separate but equal”
Legalized racial segregation for 60 years -
New York Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation -
National Child Labor Committee
supposed to investigate and collect evidence, and then hire a special photographer named Lewis Hines -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair and it exposed the dangerous of the meat industry -
Meat Inspection Act
authorized federal inspection of meat products
o Meat sources inspected before and after death
o Sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants -
Pure Food and Drug Act
regulated production of sale of food and medicines
o Prevented poisonous or spoiled products being sold
o Formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
Goal: Get equal rights for African Americans
Tactic: Fix the laws because if it’s not in the law books nothing can protect you. -
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory
Fire which caused 145 women to burn -
17th Amendment
Direct election of senators -
18th Amendment
Congress passed 18th Amendment: Banned “manufacture, sale, or transportation” of alcohol -
19th Amendment
1919: 39 states have full or partial women’s suffrage
Congress passes amendment
August 1920: Ratified
19th Amendment: “The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”
