Women’s Suffrage and Temperance – Flashcards

led by Francis Willard, powerful "interest group" following the civil war, urged women's suffrage, led to Prohibition

became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as a step towards strengthening democracy.

An amendment ratified in 1919 that completely banned the manufacture, sale, distribution, or import of any and all alcoholic beverages (started Prohibition, and was later repealed)

organized Seneca Falls Convention, founded (with Anthony) National Women Suffrage Organization

social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association

organization with the goal to get the vote for women

president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman suffrage during Wilson's administration

head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.

a women's organization founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men

the constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.