The Second Half of the Shaw Presidency

In 1911, Jane Addams became the vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage . This was an origination that fought for the rights of women. The National American Woman Suffrage origination brought to light that the women were being abused by their employers and sought random inspections of the business to ensure the standards were still being upheld. One origination that Jane Addams help build was the Women’s Trade Union League of New York, WTUL. The WTUL, along with the Red Cross, the International Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and the National Women’s Trade Union League (NWTUL), with Jane Addams being ether a founder or member of the originations, came together to help the

It was organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and led by

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Social Purity movement in the WCTU was formed in 1877. Its focus was on fighting the double standard of sexual morality. The Committee for Work with Fallen Women attempted to save prostitutes through gospel temperance. In 1885, the name of the committee changed to the Department for Social Purity. The Department’s main focus was to focus on prevention. It applied temporary housing for women fleeing prostitution, "life-saving stations" for young girls entering the city for the first time, and sex education for children. The Department was against pornography and fought to strengthen rape laws.

In time, she became the group's association's state organizer during the years of 1980 to 1892.  Mrs. Catt soon started working in the national organization of National American Woman Suffrage Association writing article, gaining political experience, and giving speeches at conferences in places such as Washington D.C.

With Seneca Falls, 1848, the movement began in earnest. Early suffragists often had ties to the abolitionist movement. (Lecture 18) With the Civil War era, suffragists split over voting rights for black men. There was a need for regrouping and rethinking in the face of a reconstructed nation because there was a push for black men to get the right to vote. There were Women’s Rights conventions every year up until the Civil War, and in 1851, a resolution that “resolved, the proper sphere, for all human beings is the largest and highest for which they are able to obtain”. (Lecture 24) This captures the true essence of both the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement. Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were Abolitionists and a majority of suffragettes were as well as well as involvement with the temperance movement. (Ibid) The question was raised, should women keep advocating for women’s rights or do they need to support the war? This resulted in the pause between 1861-1865 when there was not a women’s convention for the first time. Women were deeply involved with the Union cause and were vital to upholding society and keeping stores in business by serving as “deputy husbands”. (Ibid) Women also had a direct role serving in the war, some served as nurses in addition to some fighting for the cause. Sarah Edmunds Seelye was one of the few who fought under a man’s name, she served under Franklin Thompson for the 2nd Michigan Infantry until she deserted due to

Anthony established the National Women’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) pushed for maximum wage and hour laws for women.

In 1869 Staton, Mott, and Anthony created the “NWSA” also known as the National Women’s Suffrage Association. This group did not allow male figures in and focused around the right to vote in national elections and passing the constitutional amendment. Soon after the other suffragist Lucy Stone founded her own organization. Stone started the “NAWSA” also known as the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. This group focused on getting votes state by state for suffrage. The only difference with this organization was that men were allowed to join, which caused many problems. 20 years later in 1890 Lucy Stone had become very ill and had passed away, since no one was there to run her organization (NAWSA) the NWSA group connected together. It was now fully known as The National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) but this time men were not allowed to join.

The 1800s in the United States marked the beginning of many reforms that would be characterized as Progressive. Progressives fought to overcome ineffective governments, corrupt political institutions, and the horrible living and working conditions of the poor. Women’s reform began when the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in 1874. The women who made up this union were non-violent protesters against the dangers of alcohol. Within three months, the group was able to drive out alcohol from 250 communities. This was the first time that women were able to see

Between 1874 and 1879, the NWCTU was led by Annie Wittenmyer, an ex-Civil War nurse and a staunch anti-suffragist. During her presidency, WCTU women were encouraged to hold prayer meetings, organize and educate children about the dangers of alcohol, circulate temperance pledges, do “home missionary” work among the poor and supposedly intemperate, and make their own homes more attractive in order to counteract the lure of the saloon. Although Wittenmyer voiced the belief that “the world will halt or move in its onward march towards millennial glory, as we [women] halt or march,” she nonetheless cautioned women to be “thoughtful and prayerful” as

Stanton and Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in the wake of the Civil War.

“On May 1913, in an unseasonable hot Washington spring, a determined young women was building a woman suffrage organization, whose sole pressure congress to pass a federal amendment giving woman to vote” (azlibrary.com). “In 1920, while showing how Paul had became a suffragist and the battles that defined a generation of fractious feminist activism, the book leaves the rest of her long life” (azlibrary.com). Alice had ended that the 23 year old National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) never was effective because this wasn’t enough at the federal level. (Source 3 page 1 and

The timeline of women’s suffrage is a one that spans from 1848 to 1920. The women’s rights movement in the United States started in the year 1848 with the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. During this convention the ‘Declaration of sentiments’ was signed by 68 women who agreed that women deserved their own political identities. This document set forward the agenda for the women’s rights movement. In the year 1869, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Women’s suffrage Association which demanded that the 15th amendment be changed to include women right to vote. In the year 1890, The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merged to form National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Colorado was the first state to grant women the right to vote in the year 1893, followed by Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Michigan, South Dakota and Oklahoma. The National Association of Colored Women was formed in the year 1896 to promote the civil rights of colored women. The National Women’s Trade Union League was established in the year 1903 in order to improve the working condition for women and also to bring their wages in par with that of men.

The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1869, one of the main suffrage organizations in the US during the 19th century. It was a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The (NAWSA) became the parent that combined all of women’s suffrage small and stated organizations. It was one of the largest and most important suffrage organizations as well as being the primary promoter to woman's right to vote. Women during the gilded age, progressive Era received many injustices and suffered from inequality. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) main goal is to pursue the right to vote in different ways. The organization was established in 1890. In 1890 it became necessary to combine the efforts to try to pursue their goals. Their strategy is to pressure federal government to offer women the same constitutional protections in the Fifteenth Amendment (Keyssar,2009). After establishing (NAWSA) it became the mainstream and the most nationally visible women suffrage organization. NAWSA was the largest women's organization established to help pass woman suffrage legislation. For decades the woman suffrage movement story has been written as national stories. It’s a story that has been written through individuals and collective biography (Sneider, 2010).

Women acted through several various organizations during the Progressive Era, such as the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the National Consumers’ League (NCL), Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL), and other various trade unions. Female reformers also lead the movement against child labor and the women’s suffrage campaign. They won minimum wage and maximum hours for women workers through Muller V. Oregon, public health programs for pregnant

The IAW was formed to help the fight for women’s suffrage. The women’s suffrage movement was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women’s rights movement. The suffrage movement in the United States gained prominence with the first women’s rights convention in the world: the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, active members of the abolitionist movement who met in England in 1840 at the World