1. Reform setion 3
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2. The Rights of Women and Minorities
The Big Idea
The Progressive movement made advances for the rights
of women and some minorities.
Main Ideas
Women fought for temperance and the right to vote.
African American reformers challenged discrimination and
called for equality.
Progressive reforms failed to benefit all minorities.

3. Main Idea 1:
Women fought for temperance and
the right to vote.
• New educational opportunities drew more women into
the Progressive movement.
• Denied access to such professions as law and medicine,
women entered fields such as social work and education.
• Women’s clubs campaigned for many causes, including
temperance, women’s suffrage, child welfare, and
political reform.

5. 1 Women had equal rights to men in the early 1900s.
True
False

6. Temperance
• Women reformers took up the cause of temperance:
avoidance of alcohol consumption.
• The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union campaigned
to restrict the sale of alcoholic beverages.
• Radical temperance fighter Carry Nation stormed
saloons and smashed bottles with an axe in the 1890s.
• Temperance efforts led to the Eighteenth
Amendment (1919), banning the production, sale, and
transportation of alcoholic beverages.

7. 2 What did the 18th amendment accomplish?
A Gave women the right to vote
Banned production, sale and transportation of
B
alcohol
C African American men allowed to vote
D Banned slavery

8. Women’s Suffrage
• Women reformers fought for suffrage, or the right to
vote.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association (1890).
• Alice Paul founded the more radical National
Woman’s Party (1913).
• Used parades and public demonstrations, picketing,
and hunger strikes to spread their message
• Suffragists won the right to vote with the Nineteenth
Amendment (1919).

9. 3 What did the 19th amendment accomplish?
A Banned alcohol
B Changed legal drinking at to 21
C Banned slavery
D Gave women the right to vote

10. Main Idea 2:
African American reformers challenged
discrimination and called for equality.
Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to
improve their educational and economic well­being.
Ida B. Wells spoke out against discrimination and drew
attention to the lynching of African Americans.
W. E. B. Du Bois attacked discrimination and helped found the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People. They called for economic and educational equality for
African Americans.
The National Urban League, founded in 1911, helped African
Americans moving from the South to find jobs and housing.

11. 4 Choose three African Americans who challenged
discrimination and wanted equality for all.
A Booker T. Washington
B Abraham Lincoln
C Alice Paul
D W.E.B. Du Bois
E Elizabeth Cady Stanton
F Ida Wells

12. Ida Wells W.E.B. Du Bois

13. Main Idea 3:
Progressive reforms failed to benefit
all minorities.
• The Society of American Indians wanted Native
Americans to adopt the ways of white society, but many
of them resisted.
• Chinese Americans formed their own groups to help
support their members, including neighborhood and
district associations, cultural groups, churches, and
temples.
• Built San Francisco’s Chinese hospital in 1925
• Immigration by Mexicans increased during this period,
and many worked in farming.
• Progressive reforms did little to improve working
conditions for farm workers.

14. 5 Many minority groups were left out of the progressive
reforms (changes).
True
False