Progressive Movement

Women’s Rights/Suffrage

• 1) Women’s rights– A) Abolitionists women were some of the leaders

to ban slavery– B) Seneca Falls Convention: Stressed equal rights

for women as far as the vote was concerned– C) 1850’s suffrage (The right to vote)

Women’s Rights/Suffrage

• Women’s rights:– D) Demand for voting rights gets big boost• 15th amendment (gave blacks the right to vote)• New laws (many who didn’t vote were voting)• Non-Slave territories allowed blacks to vote there

Women’s Rights/Suffrage

• 2) Opponents to women’s voting: Women were already represented by their husband/fathers/sons/brothers– A) Women’s interests were already protected.

Women’s Rights/Suffrage

• 3) Factors leading to the 19th amendment:– A) More opportunities for women– B) World War I: More women worked (supported

the war)

Women’s Rights/Suffrage

• 4) Family Planning: another women’s movement– A) Birth Control• B) Margaret Sanger: Founded the National Birth

Control League• Upset too many women were dying in illegal abortion

situations.• Upset at the plight of unwanted or unplanned

pregnancies.