Challenges Americans Faced In The Late 19th And Early 20th Century

The challenges Americans faced in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.
The progressives were urban Northeast college educated middle-class protestants that wanted to solve some problems. To do this they started to form groups named unions. They also started to make strikes in order for them to get the new rights that they wanted. Some of the issues that they were trying to solve were women suffrage, income inequality, child labor and safer workplace conditions.
After the Civil War. Susan B. Anthony, a strong and outspoken advocate of women’s rights, demanded that the Fourteenth Amendment include a guarantee of the vote for women as well as for African American males. In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. But it was not until the congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 did women throughout the natio gain the right to vote. The progressives in my opinion did a good job working together for the rights of women. The progressives after a long time of suffrage for the women's rights they accomplish their goal which was the right to vote for women.
The activists and leaders of these movements believed deeply in the equality of the less fortunate people in the United States society. For example the progressives focus their attention to the equality in rights and opportunities of african american people and other people and immigrants and especially women their economic income was very different from white people that was way the progressives wanted to make a change they wanted same opportunities and same wages for everybody. In my opinion the progressives did very well by accomplishing many more rights for the