Seneca Fall Convention? It was outside of the time period mentioned in the question. Instead I should have include that women were working towards ending lynching.
Inalienable power? I am trying to say that women are no less than men and therefore the powers that men have should be equal to that of women. If I were to write this paragraph again it will be:
Women worked to improve the social conditions of America by fighting for morality in several areas of society. Jane Adams fought for immigration rights by starting settlement houses, where immigrants could live, they would be assisted in finding jobs, given food etc. In fact, these settlement homes also took in poverty and stricter Americans helped them get back into the mainstream of America. During the time when immigrants were discriminated against, Jane Adams gave them a place to call home in order to show them what America was reall about. Another social reform was Temperance movement. Women from all forms of life, from religious to domestic, fought for prohibition because they believed that alcohol was plaguing the nation, as well as family life. Many groups formed such as Christian Temperance League that put people from bars and begin to pray to stop drinking. Prohibition, the 18th Amendment not on,y helped family life but workers coming home to their families instead of going out to the bars, but it also helped industry, more jobs were kept because men were not getting drunk and missing work, and society as whole was more efficient …show more content…
They were successful and played important roles in changing their lives as well as supporting other reforms that were happening during Progressive