about the women at this time? Many people believe men played the most important role in this era‚ but women were just as equally helpful. If it weren’t for what women did then‚ things would not be the same now. Women played just as important roles as men did. Without women‚ men couldn’t have done some of the important things they did back in this time. The first major example of this was women volunteering their time to nurse and aid injured soldiers during war‚ like the Civil War. Women started
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Women have fought for equality in a world that is mostly dominated by men. They weren’t allowed in political debates they were always seen as the ‘house wives’ and whenever they did take action it was allow halted by men .The title itself gives to me the idea that men special involved with traditional values and they didn’t want anything to be changed. While the women wanted to move forward and seek changes in their society. The author‚ Perry‚ gives us her critique on what she was able to find in
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roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following. • PoliticsAnalyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following. • PoliticsAnalyze the roles that women playedAnalyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the folAnalyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from
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The progressive era was the response of the different groups to the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. These problems occurred after the Civil War‚ some of these problems included the spread of poverty‚ labor laws‚ women suffrage and reforming the U.S. government. All of these problems resulted in a short-lived era‚ where various reforms and conditions were targeted and improved. People known as Progressives were trying to create change. In this era‚ there were many conditions
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During the Progressive Era‚ pressure from labor‚ suffrage‚ and conservation movements profoundly changed the course of American history. Many of the reformers’ ideas clashed with the male-dominated‚ capitalist economic structure present at the turn of the century. Some of the intended reforms opposed the current system‚ but the level of social unrest necessitated change. Businessmen and activists alike initiated the reforms during the Progressive Era. Government‚ due to the intention of calming the
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Progressive Era The progressive leaders led the reform process of the nation’s industrial economy in the early years of the 20th century. Through the antirust acts‚ inspection acts‚ and regulations on trading‚ progressive reformers reshaped the way the economy ran. In a political cartoon by the Washington Post in 1907‚ President Roosevelt is on a dead raccoon with the words “bad trust” shaved into it. The political cartoon does over exaggerate the effectiveness of Roosevelt’s policies regarding
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The industrial era was a time of great change‚ but there were numerous problems that needed to be resolved‚ the progressive era was a result of this and fixed many of these issues. One complication that the progressive era solved is the rapid urbanisation and industrialisation of cities. Often overcrowded because of immigration‚ cities had very low standards of living‚ people couldn’t sustain themselves; one man named Jacob Riis even photographed the poor and published his book “How The Other Half
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The Progressive Era‚ a period in United States history between the 1890s and 1920s‚ was a period of “social activism and political reform” that flourished in many ways. The purpose of the Progressive Era was to purify the corrupt government‚ invoke social change‚ and improve the economic state of the lower and middle classes and immigrants. The Progressive Era reformers were generally very effective in addressing the problems of the late nineteenth‚ early twentieth century in America. With advancements
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find jobs‚ factories became very crowded and political machines took advantage of the new immigrants’ political power. The Progressive Era was a social movement motivated by muckrakers in the middle and upper class who sought to find and expose corruption in society. Rapid urbanization led to a corrupt political system and horrid industrial conditions that only wholesale progressive reforms could begin to improve. In the late 19th century‚ political machines controlled much of the government by using
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Many women took jobs that were considered “dead end jobs” for men to supplement the families income. During this time‚ women were not paid equal wages as the men. This is still an issue today‚ that women and men are completing the same task in the workforce‚ but the men are being paid a higher salary. During the Progressive era‚ women with a higher skill level were hired at a salary that would be given to a man with a much lower set of skills. Another demographic change during the Progressive era
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