Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History #31

2013-09-26

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In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made a lot of other gains in the 30 years between 1890 and 1920. More women joined the workforce, they acquired lots of other legal rights related to property, and they also became key consumers in the industrial economy. Women also continued to play a vital role in reform movements. Sadly, they got Prohibition enacted in the US, but they did a lot of good stuff, too. The field of social work emerged as women like Jane Addams created settlement houses to assist immigrants in their integration into the United States. Women also began to work to make birth control widely available. You'll learn about famous reformers and activists like Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, and Emma Goldman, among others.

Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. Suffragists faced a decades-long debate on women’s right to vote: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/address-to-congress-on-women-s-suffrage

While it was a hard fight to get the vote, women eventually received suffrage in 1920: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/was-hard-fight-to-get-vote

Chapters:

Introduction: Women in the Progressive Era 00:00

The Women's Era 1:01

The Women's Christian Temperance Union 1:54

The Role of Women in Politics During the Progressive Era 2:52

National Consumers League 3:15

Women Working Outside the Home 4:08

Mystery Document 4:58

Birth Control 5:57

Why Access to Birth Control Matters 7:07

Jane Addams & The Settlement House Movement 7:47