AMH-2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Carrie Nation, Lucy Burns, Alice Paul
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The quarter century before wwi was a period of growing nationalism. industrialism, and empire. Italy (consolidated their national economics and created modern notions of national citizenship) Extended their reach across seas and into the most distant corners of the world economy. Americans fought publicly over morals, ethics, laws, norms, and standards of behavior. Us wanted to conquer the philippines, cuba, china, and africa. Women did not win universal suffrage at the federal level until the 1920s. By the time congress approved a constitutional amendment granting women suffrage, many states and municipalities had already given women the rights to vote. Longstanding local sympathies for the cause and at other times due to the work of political activists like alice paul and lucy burns. Edwin w. sims supported the white slave traffic act of 1910. Sought to protect women from being lured into prostitution but also served as a method by which all premarital and extramarital sexual relationships were criminalized.
