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Section 3
New Roles for Women -Homemaker’s role changed -More went to school -Many women were progressives -Allowed them to change society -Jane Addams (Hull House) -Cary Nation (prohibition)
Suffrage for Women -Suffrage = right to vote -National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890) -Elizabeth C. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -Focused on states allowing women to vote -Many western states gave women right -Some didn’t want to give women right to vote -Voting was a “man’s job” -Women would lose their “beauty and charm” -Women would vote for higher wages and taxes
-19th Amendment -Women argued they were supporting war effort -Deserved right to vote -Ratified in 1920
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