Cause and Effects
Cause: Niagara Movement - Black civil rights organization, which supported the women's movement.
Effect: They helped to prevent segregation against all people, like women.
Cause: Jane Addams- The first female president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections.
Effect: Attended the International Congress of Women and she became the chairperson of the Women's Peace Party. Eventually she wrote Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and It's Results.
Cause: Temperance Act- The movement was the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol. Women fought for this act because it would make a difference in their life.
Effect: This act eventually became the 18th article in the Constitution, which prohibited the drinking of alcohol. It improved the life of women by helping to prevent drunk husbands from coming home to them.
Cause: Women wanted to pass reform legislation but they realized that in order to achieve reform, they need to win the right to vote
Effect: For these reasons, the women suffrage movement became a mass movement.
Cause: Women petitioned and fought for the right to work alongside men
Effect: Women started working with men in the workplace
Cause: Women in the workplace
Many women without formal education or industrial skills contributed to the economic survival of their families by doing domestic work, such as cleaning for other families.
-Poverty quickly drove nearly half of the 2 million African American women into the workforce
-Roughly 70% of women employed were servants 1870
-Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms
Effect: WTUL (Women's Trade Union League) was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women, to organize labor unions, and to eliminate sweatshops. At this time they were socially unacceptable for conditions of workers in a workplace, conditions in 1903
Cause: Women wanted a set plan to follow in order to get their full rights
Effect: "Declaration of Sediments" outlined and set agenda for the women's rights movement. This declaration demanded equality with men before the law.
Cause: Jane Adams wrote a book called "Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women."
Effect: The publication of this book resulted in a three part strategy for suffrage.
Plan to gain suffrage
1) Tried to convince state legislatures to grant women he right to vote
2) Women pursued a court case against the 14th amendment. This declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation.
3) Women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote.
Cause: The Grange, or Order of Patrons of Husbandry was formed in 1867.
Effect: Promoted equal status of women and the principle was equal pay for equal work.
Effect: They helped to prevent segregation against all people, like women.
Cause: Jane Addams- The first female president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections.
Effect: Attended the International Congress of Women and she became the chairperson of the Women's Peace Party. Eventually she wrote Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and It's Results.
Cause: Temperance Act- The movement was the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol. Women fought for this act because it would make a difference in their life.
Effect: This act eventually became the 18th article in the Constitution, which prohibited the drinking of alcohol. It improved the life of women by helping to prevent drunk husbands from coming home to them.
Cause: Women wanted to pass reform legislation but they realized that in order to achieve reform, they need to win the right to vote
Effect: For these reasons, the women suffrage movement became a mass movement.
Cause: Women petitioned and fought for the right to work alongside men
Effect: Women started working with men in the workplace
Cause: Women in the workplace
Many women without formal education or industrial skills contributed to the economic survival of their families by doing domestic work, such as cleaning for other families.
-Poverty quickly drove nearly half of the 2 million African American women into the workforce
-Roughly 70% of women employed were servants 1870
-Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms
Effect: WTUL (Women's Trade Union League) was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women, to organize labor unions, and to eliminate sweatshops. At this time they were socially unacceptable for conditions of workers in a workplace, conditions in 1903
Cause: Women wanted a set plan to follow in order to get their full rights
Effect: "Declaration of Sediments" outlined and set agenda for the women's rights movement. This declaration demanded equality with men before the law.
Cause: Jane Adams wrote a book called "Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women."
Effect: The publication of this book resulted in a three part strategy for suffrage.
Plan to gain suffrage
1) Tried to convince state legislatures to grant women he right to vote
2) Women pursued a court case against the 14th amendment. This declared that states denying their male citizens the right to vote would lose congressional representation.
3) Women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote.
Cause: The Grange, or Order of Patrons of Husbandry was formed in 1867.
Effect: Promoted equal status of women and the principle was equal pay for equal work.
This graph shows through the time of 1860-1920 the increase of states passing Women's Rights laws