By; Cynthia Galvan, Leslie Estrada, Emma Siemens Accomplishments

● Women's suffrage- 19th amendment in 1920, Susan B, Anthony ● Reform in family structures- Jane Addams, Hull House ● Labor Reform- UMWA, West Virginia Strike (1911-12), Colorado Strike (1913-14) ● Muckraking- Ida B Wells, Ida Tarbell ● Peace Movements- Women's Parade Committee, Women’s Peace Party ● Sanitary Reform- Caroline Bartlett Crane, Mary E McDowell, Edith W. Pierce, Catherine Beecher Background Information

● Primary gathering to gather support for women's rights in 1948 in Seneca Falls ● Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton unsuccessfully lobbied lobbied Congress to include women in the 14th and 15th amendments ● Focuses exclusively on the right to vote in wake of Civil War Background Information

● California Senator Aaron Sargent introduced a women’s suffrage amendment in 1878, was unsuccessful and the movement stalled ● In the late 1880s women started to become more involved in their community ● Helped motivate more women to support the suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony Early life

● Born on February 15th, 1820, in Addams Massachusetts ● Raised in a Quaker family ● Taught for 15 years at Canajoharie Academy- equal wages ● Turned to temperance- first public speech at Daughters of Temperance meeting in 1848 ● Invited to Sons of Temperance meeting to listen and learn- attends first women’s rights convention (1852) Susan B. Anthony

● Formed Women’s State Temperance Society- petition to regulate liquor sales in New York but was dismissed ● Joined anti-slavery movement- American Anti- Slavery Society ● Focused on Women’s rights- needed voice in government for any reform to occur

● Founded American Equal Rights Association (1868) ● Became Editor of The Revolution ○ “Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less” Susan B. Anthony ● Founded National Woman Suffrage Association (1869) ● Voted illegally in presidential election of 1872 ● Published first volume of History of Woman Suffrage with Elizabeth Stanton, Ida Harper, & Matilda Gage Jane Addams early life

● Born September 6th, 1860- Died May 21, 1935 in Cedarville, Illinois ● Father was a local political leader and state senator ● Graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 ● Dropped out of medical school and toured Europe ● Visited settlement house-Toynbee Hall ● Opened similar house in Chicago for underprivileged- Hull House (1889) Jane Addams

● Became involved in Peace reform ● Spoke against WWI Entrance in 1914 ● Became president of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom until 1929 - 6 international conferences Hull House

● Originally began as reading center ● Women needed childcare- began kindergarten ● Sewing and cooking lessons, lectures ● Expanded to other buildings used for classes, clubs, nursery school, public library, gymnasium ● Became center for Women/Family Reform Margaret Sanger

● 10.14.1879-10.6.1966 ● Practiced obstetrical nursing in the Lower East side of New York City ● Saw high rates of infant and maternal fatalities, deaths from illegal abortions, and poverty levels rising with uncontrolled fertility ● Decided to devote her life to educating the population about contraception Margaret Sanger

● Published many written pieces on the topic ● Including: “What Every Girl Should Know” for the New York Call, “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda” for the Birth Control Review, issued a magazine titled “The Women Rebel”, and books titled What Every Mother Should Know and My Fight For Birth Control ● She was indicted for sending out mail advocating birth control, but the charges were later dropped Margaret Sanger

● Opened the first Birth Control Clinic in the U.S in Brooklyn in 1916 ● Was arrested and charged with maintaining a “public nuisance” ● The legal harassment helped sway public opinion ● She prompted the federal courts to allow physicians to educate their patients about birth control ● She also helped the courts to reinterpret the Comstock Act of 1873 Margaret Sanger

● Founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) ● ABCL helped found the Birth Control Federation of America ● Birth Control Federation of America became Planned Parenthood Federation in 1942 Carrie Chapman Catt

● 1.9.1859-3.9.1947 ● Graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College ● Advanced from teacher to superintendent ● Married twice, Leo Chapman and George Catt Carrie Chapman Catt

● Joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association in the late 1880s ● Became involved with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) ● Was a very influential speaker, spoke all over the country ● Elected president of NAWSA in 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt

● Founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance ● Retired in 1904 to care for dying husband ● Decided to mourn and travel abroad ● Assisted in founding the Woman’s Peace Party in 1915 ● Returned to NAWSA Presidency in 1915 ● Devised the “Winning Plan” ● Helped ensure final victory Carrie Chapman Catt

● Combined the New York City suffrage groups into the Woman Suffrage Party ● Greatly contributed to New York state suffrage victory in 1917 ● Founded League of Women Voters ● Served as their honorary president until her death Carrie Chapman Catt

● During her life she also focused on issues such as world peace, child labor, and nazisim. ● Organized the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War ● Worked with Jewish refugees during Hitler’s rise to power Alice Paul

● 1.11.1885-6.9.1977 ● Parents taught gender equality ● Mother was a suffragist ● Attended Swarthmore College ● Earned PhD from University of Pennsylvania ● Went to England and met Lucy Burns and joined women's suffrage effort there ● Joined National American Woman Suffrage Association ● Lead Washington DC chapter Alice Paul

● Lobbied Congress for a Constitutional Amendment ● Differences in political strategy led Paul and others to leave NAWSA ● Formed National Woman’s Party ● Organized many marches supporting suffrage ● Largest march in Washington DC on March 3, 1913 ● Approx. 8,000 women participated ● Met with Woodrow Wilson on March 17th, said it was to early to amend constitution Alice Paul

● Organized a demonstration and founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage ● In January 1917, Paul and over 1,000 other “Silent Sentinels” started their picketing in front of the White House ● Harassed by spectators ● Arrested on “Obstructing Traffic” charges ● Paul sentenced to 7 months in jail ● News of her treatment gathered public support, by 1918 Woodrow Wilson publicly supported suffrage Hanna McCormick

● 3.27.1880-12.31.1944 ● Attended elite private schools throughout her youth ● When 16, her father was elected into US Senate and they moved to Washington DC ● Married Medill McCormick, heir to the Chicago Tribune, in 1903 Hanna McCormick

● Joined the Settlement House Movement ● Also active in the pure foods movement ● Started her own dairy farm and breedery, sold quality milk to the public Hanna McCormick

● Was active in the Suffrage Movement from 1913-1920 ● Worked as a lobbyist to confirm the Illinois Equal Suffrage Act passed in 1913 ● Succeeded ALice Paul as the chair of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association ● Wanted to bring women into the Republican Party ● In 1918 she was elected to direct the Republican Women’s National Executive Committee Hanna McCormick

● Became the first National Committeewoman from Illinois ● Husband failed to get re-elected for senate ● Hanna blamed his loss on a lack of female voters ● Spent the following 4 years creating GOP women’s clubs ● Had a club in 90 out of Illinois’ 102 counties Hanna McCormick

● Believed it was best to keep U.S out of war ● Elected U.S Representative from Illinois in 1928 ● Decided to run for Senate, nominated by the Republican Party ● First Woman to be nominated for Senate by a major party ● Didn’t win due to a plethora of reasons Hanna McCormick Simms

● Married Albert Gallatin Simms in 1932 ● He was also a Representative during the 71st Congress ● First time two concurrent Members had married ● Moved to New Mexico ● She started an all girls’ school ● Continued to manage two newspapers and a radio station in Illinois ● Sold dairy farm and bought 250,000 acres of cattle land in Colorado :) Hanna McCormick Simms

● Became first woman to manage a presidential campaign in 1940 ● Worked for Thomas Dewey ● Gave multiple speeches a day Hanna McCormick Simms

● Fell off a horse on her ranch in Colorado ● Broke her shoulder and was diagnosed with pancreatitis ● Pancreas burst on December 4th, died on December 31st Ida B Wells

● One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ● Became a teacher after parents and brother died, being a black woman, she was only paid $30 a month while white teachers were being paid $80 ● First was a civil rights activist, then involved herself in Women Reform ● 1864-Helped form a Republican Women’s Club in Illinois in response to granting women the right to vote for a state elective office Ida B Wells

● After being involved in civil rights movement, she involved herself in women’s movement. ● 1896-Wells founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Club and National Afro American Council. ● NACWC motto “Lifting as we climb”. Caroline Bartlett Crane

● From Kalamazoo, Michigan, was hired as a consultant by over 60 municipalities to prepare sanitary surveys. ● One of the leads for sanitary reform. ● Acquired a national reputation for municipal housekeeping. ● Compiled a manual in 1904 called “Studies in Housekeeping” for the Michigan State Federation of Women’s Clubs and taught a course in her hometown. Caroline Bartlett Crane ● By 1917, she had inspected 62 cities in 14 states earning a reputation as “America's public housekeeper” (Notable 402) ● She discovered unsanitary conditions in slaughterhouses, and was able to successfully campaign for meat inspection. ● Founded the Women’s Civic Improvement League in 1903-04 ● The purpose of the league was to improve and beautify Michigan Mary E McDowell

● With Elizabeth Harrison’s support she began teaching Kindergarten classes in the Hull House ● Worked with residents of the stockyard to improve their neighborhood through education of political rights and civic consciousness. ● Major initiative she headed early on was establishing civic clubs for both women AND men. ● 1894-Opened up the University of Chicago Settlement House to alleviate the crowded, unsanitary housing immigrant families often faced. Mary E Mcdowell

● She lobbied the US Government to establish the Women’s Bureau to study living and working conditions of women and children. ● The Women’s Bureau then became a war-time service to employ women. Was established just two months before women could vote. ● Also commonly known as the “garbage lady” ● Effectively caused substantial changes in the solid waste disposal practices of Chicago, Illinois. Women’s Bureau

● Focused on women’s working conditions in industries including manufacturing, household employment, and clothing industry. ● 21% of Americans employed at this time were women, who worked long hours with little wages. ● Successfully advocated for the inclusion of women under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which, set minimum wages, and maximum working hours. Edith W Pierce ● Rewarded for service in 1913 when she became the first female inspector of street cleaning ● Morris L Cooke noted her responsibilities would be much more different that men inspectors. ● Had to inspect the whole city, motivated by the 3 C’s, Care, Common-Sense, and Cooperation. ● Efficiently carried out her official assignments ● Organized sectional associations for keeping streets, sidewalks, homes, and schools clean. ● Founded a Junior Sanitation League The End :)