Progressive Goals?

Question

How did women work for progressive goals?

Answer 1

American women were very active in the abolitionist movement in the 19th century. Women circulated petitions, lobbied congressmen, spke at meetings and organised anti-slaverly fairs.  The organised women's rights movement started with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848.  Although a lot of women worked for the cause of women's suffrage, there were a great many more women who were interested in the cause of temperence, as they believed drunkenness was at the root of society's problems.  Eventually the Women's Temperence movement joined forces with the women's suffrage movement because they thought getting the vote was their best chance of getting Prohibtion enforced.  Several American states gave women the vote in the late 19th and early 20th century, before the 19th Amendment finally became law in 1920.

Answer 2

Marching in the streets to demand the right to vote.

Picketing outside businesses that didn't hire women.

Rosa Parks riding in the "white's only" part of the bus to end segration.

Women working as doctors and scientists and proving that they were as good or better than men.