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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Led by Francis Willard. Inspired by religious morals and wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke, etc. due to drinking. Lobbied for local alcohol bans. Anti-alcohol education programs. Rural areas and business owners supported it. Many immigrants were against it since alcohol was a part of some cultures. -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that separate white and black people in public facilities. Around into the 1960s. Jim Crow was a bad image: a bad stereotype of blacks. -
NAWSA
National American Women's Suffrage Association. First President Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Goal: get most states to pass women’s suffrage --> Congress must pass an amendment. Three part strategy: Convince state legislatures to give women the right to vote, try to trick the 14th amendment, and get an amendment to the Constitution. -
Anti-Saloon League
Took over Prohibition movement in early 1900s. Tension with immigrants- believed that immigrants drank the most. Goal was the make cities safer and Americanize immigrants. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy (a 1/8th African American) tried to test out the 14th amendment and ride the non black train car. Supreme Court rules that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th amendment. “Separate but equal” – LIES. Legalized racial segregation for 60 years -
Carrie Catt Chapman
Elected NAWSA President. Women's Suffrage Activist. Brought national attention to the movement. Changed tactics of the suffragists. Staffed mass meetings, suffrage parades, propaganda -
New York Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation. Minimum size and window requirements. Required one bathroom for every two families. Indoor plumbing. Set up Tenement Department to perform inspections. Tenements owners still found loop holes to avoid this act. -
National Child Labor Committee
Two jobs: collect the evidence documenting child labor and hire Lewis Hines to photograph child labor. Photos provided visual proof of child labor. -
The Jungle
Written by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker. This exposed horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry and led to huge reforms in the food industry. -
Meat Inspection Act
Authorized federal inspection of meat products. Meat sources before and after death. Sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Regulated production of sale of food and medicines. Prevented poisonous or spoiled products from being sold. Formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -
Triangle Factory Fire
A cigarette dropped on the eighth floor in the Ash building started started the fire. The business owners, Harris and Blanck, kept the doors locked in the factory to keep the workers from leaving early or slacking. This was a hindrance while the factory girls were trying to escape and led to 145 deaths. The impact of this fire set a new standard for safety regulations in working conditions. -
18th Amendment
Passed by Congress in 1917. Banned the manufacturing, sale or transportation of alcohol. Did not make it illegal to drink alcohol, though. -
Prohibition Movement
Fight to make alcohol illegal (used to be Temperance Movement during the American Revolution) -
19th Amendment
Granted American women the right to vote. President Woodrow Wilson gave in. By 1919, 39 states had full or partial women's suffrage. It was thought of as a thank-you gift for the help and aid of all the women in WWI.
