Kent Chronicles Suffrage and Prohibition Intertwined Progressive Amendments to the Constitution May, 2013
Feb 25, 2016
Kent ChroniclesSuffrage and Prohibition
Intertwined Progressive Amendments to the Constitution
May, 2013
Interconnected Reform Groups
• Abolitionists
• Suffragettes
• Prohibitions
Interrelated groups;Suffrage and Prohibition learned about social reform from the Abolitionists, then fed off the energy of one another
Women’s Suffrage
• World Anti-Slavery Convention
• Seneca Falls, NY
• The Declaration of Sentiments
Education
Suffragette Split
• 15th Amendment
• Susan B. Anthony• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucy Stone• Julia Ward Howe
National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman’s Party
• Alice Paul• Lucy Burns
19th Amendment
Now What?
• League of Women Voters
Changing Role for Women• More opportunities for work• Refused to return to Victorian society• Really, this was only in the Cities
Switching Gears
Prohibition Laws
• Wartime Prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
Dries
• Washingtonians
• Women’s Christian Temperance Movement– Frances Willard– Carrie Nation
• Prohibition Party
• Anti-Saloon League
Wets
• The German American League– Adolphus Busch
• Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
• Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform– Pauline Sabin
Everybody Else
• “Capital T” Total Abstinence
• Or
• Scofflaws
Unintended Consequences
• Stockpiled
• Bootlegging
• Rum running
Organized Crime
• Al Capone
• Roy Olmstead
• Wood Alcohol poisoning
DIY Booze• Grape Bricks
• Home Stills
• Home Brewing
Unintended Consequences
• Loss of Federal Government Revenue
Killing Prohibition
• Speakeasies.
21st Amendment
Lest we forget