World War I, Influenza, Women

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World War I, Influenza, Womens Suffrage

• 1914-1920

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WWI

• WWI took place in Europe between 1914-1918
• WWI started over Austria-Hungary competing for
  land with Russia and Serbia
• The US entered the war in 1917
• Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey
• Allied Powers England, France, Italy, Russia,
  then the US entered on this side

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WWI and Washington State

• US entered war when Germany sank passenger ships,
  killing Americans
• About 75,000 Washington men were drafted into the
  army this was the start of the Selective
  Service Act (Draft)
• Many Washington farms provided food for the
  troops
• German language was banned from being taught in
  schools

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IWW Against the War

• Wobblies were against the war because they
  thought it was to enrich big business, not to
  save democracy
• 1917 Wobblies held strike for an eight-hour work
  day
• Lumber companies had to comply in order to
  continue their supply of lumber for planes and
  warships

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Support for the War
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Government Posters
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Influenza Pandemic

• Influenza, characterized by rapid onset and high
  fever, arrived in Boston on August 31, 1918, and
  made its way to Puget Sound the following month
  on a trainload of sick Navy draftees from
  Philadelphia.
• Spanish Influenza pandemic (worldwide epidemic)
  arrives in Seattle On October 3, 1918
• 700 cases and one death reported at the
  University of Washington Naval Training Station
  within two days.

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Influenza in Seattle

• Some 1,600 persons die in Seattle from October
  1918-April 1919 despite the closing of theaters
  and schools, the banning of public gatherings,
  and the widespread wearing of gauze masks.

• Third Avenue, Seattle, 1918

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Influenza Worldwide 1918

• Throughout the world, at least 21 million people
  died, including some 700,000 in the United
  States.

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Womens Suffrage Movement

• Suffrage the right to vote
• Washington was the fifth state to give women the
  right to vote, 10 years BEFORE the US
  Constitutional Amendment 19 in 1920

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Womens Suffrage Movement

• Bellingham Suffragists

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May Arkwright Hutton

• A cook in Coeur d Alene, Idaho
• Met husband and they became rich as mine owners
• Best known womens activist in Idaho, Washington,
  and Oregon

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May Arkwright Hutton

• Idaho women had gained the vote in 1896, and May
  Hutton not only voted, but in 1904 entered
  politics by running as a Democrat for the state
  legislature. 
• She came within 80 votes of her Republican
  opponent.

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May Arkwright Hutton

• When May and her husband moved to Spokane, she
  did not have the right to vote because it was a
  different state.
• The 1909 convention of the National American
  Woman Suffrage Association was to be held in
  Seattle July 1-6 to coincide with the
  Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
• Washington gave women the right to vote in 1910.