Section 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nurse Lillian Wald | national reform leader "The whole world is my neighborhood." |
| What right did the women work for? | to vote improve working conditions temperance |
| Jane Adams | established Hull House -a settlement house in Chicago |
| Mother Cabrini | Italian nun who cam to the United States to work with the poor |
| National Association of Colored Women | homes for orphans founded hospital worked for woman suffrage |
| What is the motto for NACW? | "Lifting As We Climb" |
| Mary Church Terrell | first president of NACW active leader for women's rights |
| Women struggled rights for them selfs and.... | working class people immigrants society as a whole |
| Women's trade union league | encouraged working women to form labor unions and protect the rights of women factory workers |
| temperance | urging individuals to stop drinking |
| prohibition | the passing of laws to prohibit the making or selling of alcohol |
| Woman's Christians Temperance Union; Anti Saloon League | called for temperance and prohibition |
| Francis Willard | lead a campaign to educate the public about the links between alcohol abuse and violence, poverty, and unemployment Head of the WCTU |
| What is the WCTU's main goal? | prohibition |
| Carry Nation | an especially colorful crusader for temperance |
| Eighteenth Amendment | known as the prohibition law making it illegal to make transport or sell alcohol in the U.S it was ratified in 1919 |
| Define suffragists | people who worked to get the right to vote for women |
| Define suffrage | the right to vote |
| Who founded the National Women Suffrage Association? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony |
| National Women Suffrage Association | called for a constitutional amendment allowing women to vote in national elections |
| Why did some people oppose women suffrage? | thought is would upset societies natural balance and lead to divorce and neglected children |
| How did the suffrage movement gain strength? | when respected public figures such as Jane Adams spoke out in support of the vote for women |
| What was the first state to give women the right to vote? | Wyoming |
| Alice Paul | a Quaker, who founded the National Woman's Party in 1916, and started hunger strikes |
| Nineteenth Amendment | allowed women suffrage |
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