Progressive Era's Social Goals

During the Progressive Era, when the nineteenth amendment was passed, women were considered morally superior to men. A woman's place was in the home. This definition of a woman's place was culturally engendered. Women, Laura Johns explained at the 1890 Kansas Equal Suffrage Association convention, have a "higher standard of administrative efficiency . . . sincerity, character in candidates . . . spirit of helpfulness, a thoughtfulness and knowledge . . . born of faith in the right and ultimate triumph". Women's sphere of direct influence was domesticity and religion. For these reasons, it was argued, it was morally imperative that women

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ciety and their husbands and fathers. This was the situation women found themselves in at the beginning of the women's suffrage movement. The Progressive Era was a response to the industrialization and urbanization of the American work force. The Industrial Revolution created the need for cheep labor in the form of women and immigrants. Westward expansion also created opportunities for women outside their traditional sphere of influence and proscribed roles. These women along with the middle class, and upper-middle class formed the vanguard of the suffragist movement. This group of women formed a large, diverse, geographically separated audience which was reachable through the rising tide of women's publications. Concurrent advances in the publishing industry, and the introduction of the popular magazine format, allowed the spread of the message of women's suffrage in an efficient manner. The impact of the media was important at the beginning of the campaign for women's rights and continues to be important today. Three women had especially important roles in exploiting this media. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Revolution, and Lucy Stone published The Woman's Journal. The Revolution was ai
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