LIT 3380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Universal Suffrage
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Women"s rights - primary interest was securing legilsation to permit married women to control their own property but they had suffrage as a bright hope. Addams participated in chicago world"s fair where representatives came from all over the world. Made illinois aware of women as essential to the reamking of the old democracy. They might force better schools, for hull houses, better sanitation and hospitalization. Legal enactments, amelioration of social conditions, education and protection of children, increased social control. Important of voluntary agencies and rebellions to force the government.