1. Section 4 - Women and
the Progressive Movement
CHAPTER 24 – TEXAS IN THE
AGE OF REFORM

2. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
 Led to the
temperance
movement
 Caused the
Democratic Party to
split into those for
and against the
prohibition of
alcohol

3. TEMPERANCE MOVENT
 Ratified the Eighteenth
Amendment in 1919 –
forbade the
manufacture and sale
of alcohol
 temperance movement
– a social reform effort
that encouraged people
to drink less alcohol

4. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
 Women played a vital role
in social reforms and even
held public office like
Annie Webb Blanton
 Fought for and gained the
right to vote in l9l9 with
the approval of the
Nineteenth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution Annie Webb Blanton

5. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
 Eleanor Brackenridge –
elected president in 1913
to Texas Women’s
Suffrage Association
 Jane McCullum – Texas
suffrage leader
Jane McCullum

6. LIMITS OF REFORM
 African American and
Mexican American
women also fought for
reforms but were not
welcomed by white
reformers
 Minorities had their
voting rights restricted
by poll tax – a tax on
voting

7. LIMITS OF REFORM
 1902 – Texas begins to require poll tax
 More Jim Crow Laws were passed in the early
1900s