Critical Thinking 17-2 #5

Imagen you are a woman during the progressive era. Explain how you might recruit other women to support the following causes: improving education, housing reform, food and drug laws and the right to vote.

Women in the Progressive era were fighting for many causes.In the case of education, most women in public life started attending women's colleges. With College education, most women in the late 19th century didn't get married and retained their independence. The African American women formed an organization called th National Association of Colored Women and managed things such as nurseries, reading rooms and kindergartens.
Other organizations run by women had a "social housekeeping" which targeted workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement and food and drug laws. For getting th right to vote, they had a "three part strategy for suffrage". The first stage was trying to convince state legislatures to grant women the right to vote. Second, they perused court cases to test the fourteenth amendment. Third, the women pushed for a national constitutional amendment to grant women the voting rights. This was first attempted in California. It was passed, but was eventually killed not long after.