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Women’s Reform Movements 28575635A. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT00A. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT404431511811000In colonial America, informal social controls in the home and community made abuse of alcohol was unacceptable. As the colonies grew from a rural society into a more urban one, drinking patterns began to change. As the American Revolution approached, economic change and urbanization were accompanied by increasing poverty, unemployment, and crime. These emerging social problems were often blamed on drunkenness. Social control over alcohol abuse declined, anti-drunkenness laws were relaxed and alcohol problems increased dramatically. Most of the anti-drunkenness supporters (temperance) in the past have been women. The strong temperance movements of the early 20th century found support from women who were opposed to the domestic violence associated with alcohol abuse, and the large share of household income it could consume, which was especially burdensome to the low-income working class. The Temperance Movement attempted to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed within a community or society in general -- and later, with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, even prohibited its production and consumption entirely. Temperance means to moderate (limit) and prohibit means to outlaw.2857592075B. THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT00B. THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT35052007556500As early as 1848, women in the north began to join the paid work force, to seek higher educational opportunities and to perceive a new sense of selfhood. The Women’s Rights Movement was an out growth cities of the northeast, but soon attracted supporters in emerging cities in the mid-western and western urban centers. The still mostly agricultural southern states were last to join. The first women’s rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. While many women and men in the rest of the country had committed themselves to woman suffrage by the turn of the century, it wasn’t until the 1890s that women even began to organize in the south. In 1919, women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The process, which began in 1848, took over 72 years. The term women's suffrage means extending the right to vote to women.Directions: Read on the Temperance and Women’s Suffrage Movement and answer the following questions using the notes. A. Temperance Movement1. As America moved from a rural society to an urban society during the industrial revolution, what happened to drinking patterns in America? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What kind of problems were associated with urbanization? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What were the problems associated with urbanization blamed on? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Which group of Americans supported temperance or “anti-drunkenness?” ____________________5. What reasons did women have for supporting temperance? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. What Amendment prohibited the production and consumption of alcohol? _____________________7. What does temperance of alcohol mean? _______________________________________________8. What does prohibition of alcohol mean? ________________________________________________B. Women’s Suffrage Movement1. What did women in the north begin to do 1848? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What region in the United States did the Suffrage movement start? __________________________3. What region was last to join the Women’s Suffrage movement? _____________________________ 4. Where did the first women’s rights convention take place? _________________________________5. What Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote? _________________________6. How many years, from start to end, did the women’s suffrage movement last? _________________7. What does women’s suffrage mean? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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