Women Progressive Movement

Prohibition...

• is the 18th Amendment which placed a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

• Amendment which allowed for all people to feel free to take care of the environment.

• is the 21st Amendment which made it illegal for women to vote.

suffrage means

• the right to vote

• the right to buy property

• the right to marry

Which statement is TRUE when evaluating the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

• the 19^th Amendment was ratified in 1920 granting voting rights

• World War I weakened opposition to the 19^th Amendment

• The National Women’s Suffrage Association pushed for suffrage Amendment for women

• All answers are correct

Which statement is NOT true when discussing the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?

• there were some radical and violent members

• they believed alcohol was responsible for unemployment, crime and broken homes

• they wanted alcohol outlawed

• they never achieved federal legislation

A "suffragette" is

• A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories

• Someone who took bribes

• someone who fought for women's rights

• a gardener

Ratified in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution allowed which group of people full voting rights?

• African Americans

• 18 year-olds

• Women

In 1890 Elizabeth Stanton & Susan B. Anthony founded the.....

• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Who drew attention to the lynching of African Americans?

• William Haywood
• Ida B. Wells
• William Howard Taft
• W.E.B DeBois

A major goal of the constitutional amendment establishing national Prohibition was to

• stop organized crime

• eliminate alcohol consumption

• restrict immigration

• end poll taxes

The Temperance Movement was focused on

• restoring better morals in America by urging people not to drink alcohol.

• improving living conditions in urban tenements.

• helping new immigrants adjust to life in America.

• improving working conditions and ending child labor.