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Carrie Chapman Catt elected NAWSA President
-Woman's Suffrage Movement
-Elected NAWSA President
-Changed tactics for suffragist
-Started mass meetings, suffrage parades, propaganda -
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The Progressive Era
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New York Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation
-Minimum size and window requirements
-Required one full bathroom for every 2 families
-Indoor plumbing -
National Child Labor Committee
-Collect evidence to document conditions faced by child laborers
-Hired investigator/photographer Lewis Hine (kind of like a muckraker) -
Niagara Movement
Group that promoted racial integration, civil rights, and equal economic opportunities -
The Jungle
-Upton Sinclair (Muckraker)
-exposed horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry
-led to huge reforms in the food industry -
Meat Inspection Act
-Authorized federal inspection of meat products
-Meat sources inspected before and after death -
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) -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAAP)
-Abolish segregation
-Establish equal justice
-Equal educational opportunities -
Triangle shirtwaist Factory Fire
The fire was caused by a dropped cigarette. The ladies tried escaping by jumping out windows, trying to get in the elevator, going on top of the elevator shaft and more. The owners locked the door beforehand and did not announce to the ladies that there was a fire. -
17th amendment
Direct election of senators (whoever gets the most votes, wins) Established the popular vote. -
Formation of National Woman’s Party
-Alice Paul created the party
-More radical and extreme than NAWSA
-Used mass protests, marches, hunger strikes: (not going to eat until they get the right to vote) -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Prohibited Slavery -
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
-Grants women the right to vote
