1. Section 4 - Women and
the Progressive Movement
CHAPTER 24 – TEXAS IN THE
AGE OF REFORM
2. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Led to the
temperance
movement
Caused the
Democratic Party to
split into those for
and against the
prohibition of
alcohol
3. TEMPERANCE MOVENT
Ratified the Eighteenth
Amendment in 1919 –
forbade the
manufacture and sale
of alcohol
temperance movement
– a social reform effort
that encouraged people
to drink less alcohol
4. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Women played a vital role
in social reforms and even
held public office like
Annie Webb Blanton
Fought for and gained the
right to vote in l9l9 with
the approval of the
Nineteenth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution Annie Webb Blanton
5. SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Eleanor Brackenridge –
elected president in 1913
to Texas Women’s
Suffrage Association
Jane McCullum – Texas
suffrage leader
Jane McCullum
6. LIMITS OF REFORM
African American and
Mexican American
women also fought for
reforms but were not
welcomed by white
reformers
Minorities had their
voting rights restricted
by poll tax – a tax on
voting
7. LIMITS OF REFORM
1902 – Texas begins to require poll tax
More Jim Crow Laws were passed in the early
1900s