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Progressive Era's Social Goals

al children, it was necessary to ensure a moral world and society, in which they could grow and develop their moral character. Women, being of higher moral fiber and kinder, were needed to civilize and stabilize the business climate. Respectable women often joined Women's Temperance Associations, and campaigned for prohibition. In the political realm, women could do nothing to rectify the social injustices found around them. The reform movements, and progressive politics, gave women avenues for charity work but no empowerment. Women did not have the power to change the rules of society. This crippling fact was clearly revealed when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met the Grimke sisters in London. The occasion was the World Anti-Slavery Convention, in June of 1840. The women had come to discuss strategies for obtaining abolition. Instead of being allowed to speak, the women were barred from the floor and ensconced in the visitors gallery. The stated reason, for this action, was that God had forbidden women to speak in public. It appeared that men and religion had become partners in the subjugation of women.

By 1948, Elizabeth Cady Stanton had become very frustrated with the situation, of not being able to speak out freely in public, on the question of abolition. She delivered a public address

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