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Progressivism
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Progressivism emerged as a political movement in response to significant economic, social, and political inequalities. Though Progressives advocated for many different reforms, the central, shared idea was that the government should lead efforts to change society’s ills. Previously, the general consensus was that social or economic ills were best solved through private efforts. Muckraking journalists and intellectuals publicized these issues through newspapers and lectures, and protesters and activists began to affect modest change across the country.
Progressives sought the elimination of government corruption, women’s suffrage, social welfare, prison reform, prohibition, and civil liberties. While the progressive promotion of public health initiatives and universal education benefitted everyone, especially the poor and immigrants, progressives did not organize to promote black suffrage or equal rights. However, many progressive individuals did fight for civil rights on a smaller scale, and progressive activists, journalists, and thinkers formed advocacy groups such as the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP).
Cited: "Teddy Roosevelt and Progressivism." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Progressivism." Progressivism. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Glenn Beck." Glenn Beck American Progressivism Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Progressives sought the elimination of government corruption, women’s suffrage, social welfare, prison reform, prohibition, and civil liberties. While the progressive promotion of public health initiatives and universal education benefitted everyone, especially the poor and immigrants, progressives did not organize to promote black suffrage or equal rights. However, many progressive individuals did fight for civil rights on a smaller scale, and progressive activists, journalists, and thinkers formed advocacy groups such as the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP).
Cited: "Teddy Roosevelt and Progressivism." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Progressivism." Progressivism. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Glenn Beck." Glenn Beck American Progressivism Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Womens Rights.
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Women didn't have a lot of rights during the industrial. No women regardless of their wealth could vote. Women had more demanding and responsible jobs. Though women took on the major part of a job, they also took on much smaller wages. The industrial revolution changed families, they are now working together. It is hard for women to take care of their children. The jobs that women did were difficult, exhausting, and sometimes dangerous. Women had a double burden during this time, working in factories and mills, then also having to go home and take care of a family. Women didn't have the right to not work, they were always under men and always had to obey their rules no matter if they liked them or not. Women were demanded to have children, it was not common for women to have ten children, and also not common for a women to have to go back to work the day after child birth. Leaving the care of the child in the hands of children or older relatives. Limited rights on to women, yet they are asked so much of themselves. One of the only places women could not work was in cole mines. Laws were passed during the 19th century stating married women could own property, and the right to sue for divorce under some circumstances.
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Cited: "Lesson: Industrial Revolution (Women in World History Curriculum)." Lesson: Industrial Revolution (Women in World History Curriculum). N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
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Cited: "Lesson: Industrial Revolution (Women in World History Curriculum)." Lesson: Industrial Revolution (Women in World History Curriculum). N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
Temperance Movement
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Temperance as a mass movement originated in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Before this, although there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess, total abstinence from alcohol was very rarely advocated or practiced. There was also a concentration on hard spirits rather than on total abstinence from alcohol and on moral reform rather than legal measures against alcohol.
The 19th and early 20th century saw considerable organizing for temperance or prohibition. Temperance usually refers to seeking to inspire individuals to moderate liquor use or abstain from drinking liquor. Prohibition usually refers to making it illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol.
The effects of drunkenness on families -- in a society in which women had limited rights to divorce or custody, or even to control their own earnings -- and the growing evidence of medical effects of alcohol, prompted efforts to convince individuals to "take the pledge" to abstain from alcohol, and then to persuade states, localities and eventually the nation to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Some religious groups, notably the Methodists, believed that drinking liquor was sinful.
By the early 20th century, the liquor industry, like other industries, had extended its control. In many cities, saloons and taverns were controlled or owned by liquor companies. The growing presence of women in the political sphere, was accompanied by and reinforced by the belief that women had a special role in preserving families and health and thus to work to end liquor consumption, manufacture and sale. The Progressive movement often took the side of temperance and prohibition.
Cited: "Temperance Movement and Prohibition Timeline." About.com Women's History. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013
Cited: "Temperance Movement." - Ohio History Central. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "The Progressive Movement." The Progressive Movement. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
The 19th and early 20th century saw considerable organizing for temperance or prohibition. Temperance usually refers to seeking to inspire individuals to moderate liquor use or abstain from drinking liquor. Prohibition usually refers to making it illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol.
The effects of drunkenness on families -- in a society in which women had limited rights to divorce or custody, or even to control their own earnings -- and the growing evidence of medical effects of alcohol, prompted efforts to convince individuals to "take the pledge" to abstain from alcohol, and then to persuade states, localities and eventually the nation to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Some religious groups, notably the Methodists, believed that drinking liquor was sinful.
By the early 20th century, the liquor industry, like other industries, had extended its control. In many cities, saloons and taverns were controlled or owned by liquor companies. The growing presence of women in the political sphere, was accompanied by and reinforced by the belief that women had a special role in preserving families and health and thus to work to end liquor consumption, manufacture and sale. The Progressive movement often took the side of temperance and prohibition.
Cited: "Temperance Movement and Prohibition Timeline." About.com Women's History. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013
Cited: "Temperance Movement." - Ohio History Central. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "The Progressive Movement." The Progressive Movement. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.
The impact of "the jungle"
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Upton Sinclair's account of workers' falling into rendering tanks and being ground into "Durham's Pure Beeff Lard" as well as the exploitation of women and children workers, caught the publics imagination & sparked widespread outrage.
The outcry resulting from the brutal and unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry lead to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which established the Bureau of Chemistry that would become in 1930, the Food and Drug Administration.
This book pretty much brought out the true color of the effects of the Industrial Revolution and what workers went through just to bring food and shelter over their family.
Cited: "What Impact Did Upton Sinclair's Book The Jungle Have on American Life?"WikiAnswers. Answers, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
The outcry resulting from the brutal and unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry lead to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which established the Bureau of Chemistry that would become in 1930, the Food and Drug Administration.
This book pretty much brought out the true color of the effects of the Industrial Revolution and what workers went through just to bring food and shelter over their family.
Cited: "What Impact Did Upton Sinclair's Book The Jungle Have on American Life?"WikiAnswers. Answers, n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Cited: "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.