Term | Definition |
Sophia Smith | Founder of smith college in Massachusetts |
Temperance | Avoidance of alcohol |
Women's Christian temperance union (WCTU) | Fought for adoption of local and state restricting the sale of alcohol |
Frances Willard | Leader of the WCTU |
Cary Nation | Became famous for storming into saloons with a hatchet and smashing liquor bottles |
18th Amendment | Banning the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
Suffrage | Right to vote |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | Founded the National American Women Suffrage Association(NAWSA) to promote the cause of women's suffrage |
Carrie Chapman Catt | Became president of the NAWSA |
Alice Paul | Founded the NWP |
National Women's Party (NWP) | Used parades, public demonstration, picketing, and hunger strikes to draw attention to suffrage cause |
19th Amendment | Granted women the right to vote |
Booker T. Washington | one of the most important African American leaders that was born into slavery |
Ida B. Wells | journalist that spoke out against discrimination and wrote about unequal education available to African Americans |
W.E.B Du Bois | took a direct approach to fighting racial injustice and helped found the (NAACP) |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | organization that called for economic and educational equality for African Americans |
Guinn VS Unite States | made the grandfather clause illegal |
National Urban League | aided many African Americans moving from the south by helping them find jobs and houses in the north |
Dr. George Edmund Hayes | found the National Urban League |
Carlos Montezuna and Charles Eastman | Native people that believed integration into white society would end native american poverty |