Question

Women of the Progressive Era

1.What were the goals of the Suffrage movement?



2.What opportunities did women have for education and work outside the home during the work? Why?


3.How did women gain political experience through participation in the reform movements?


4.How did the women’s suffrage movement campaign for the vote?


5.Were all women accepted into the N.W.S.A. National Woman Suffrage Association? Why not?

Answer 1

Women became leaders in a range of social and political movements from 1890 through 1920, known as the Progressive Era. Prominent suffragists led progressive causes. Jane Addams established Chicago's Hull-House, and Ida B. Wells led a campaign against the lynching of African American