Unit II: Women during the Progressive Era Kenedra Coney HIS 204 Professor Owens May 29‚ 2011 Unit II: Women in the Progressive Era During the decades between 1890s and 1920s there was a new age of reform there was so much reform activity that historians called this era the Progressive Era. During this time there were millions of Americans that were organized in association to many solutions to industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and immigration problems that brought about a new social reform order
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The Progressive Era lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s focusing on many different issues. During the Progressive Era women played a key part in trying to make changes in their political rights and making advancements in progressivism. “Equal Rights” was not what it seemed to be‚ women of course had their freedom but they necessarily didn’t have the freedom to vote like that of men. There are so many different things that led to women getting involved in the Progressive Era. Before women’s suffrage
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Throughout the Progressive Era many reform and laws were enforced. It was a great time for several groups especially women. During the Progressive Era we started to see women in public more often working and being accepted into society as equal to men. However‚ there were exceptions. Women still could not vote‚ were not given the same jobs men could get‚ were being paid less‚ and were still seen as homemakers. This was unacceptable in the eyes of many including: Young Women’s Christian Association
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influential as the labor and woman’s suffrage movements. Both arose during the Progressive era in which reform movements swept across the United States to eliminate problems caused by industrialization and urbanization. Small-scale business operations were soon replaced by much larger corporation based ones that supported themselves on the hard labor of the people they employed‚ leaving appropriately named “robber barons” at the top. Men and a growing number of women in the workforce began to push back
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any more laissez-fare officers Well before 1900 and after‚ politicians and writer had began to pin point targets for the progressive attack The social Gospel promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian based teaching to help get better housing and living conditions for the poor. many women improved the fight for their list of needed reforms The Progressive had their roots with the Green Back labor party and the populist party II. Racking Muck with the Muckrakers Beginning
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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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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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‘“The word “progressive” came into common use around 1910 as a way of describing a broad‚ loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life”’. What progressivism was a reform movement that took government action to solve the problems in American life. The work to change many categories like education‚ public health‚ labor‚ economy and etc. “Progressives included forward-looking businesses men who realized
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The progressive era was a history a period of social activisms and political reform. After the gilded age citizens realized that America was in desperate need for something new‚ something fresh. Many new reforms were made in order to improve our America‚ and it couldn’t be done without the presents that were under office at the time. Through the progressive era and the reforms of president McKinely Roosevelt‚ Taft‚ and Wilson america slowly began to progress. President William McKinley was the
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Women fought a lot to gain full equality during the Progressive era. The perfection of the American Revolution increased women’s suppositions‚ encourage some of the first straight forward requirements for impartiality and observed the formation of female institutions to enhance women’s education. According to http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=11(by the early 19th century‚ American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world). The American government’s expanded suffrage to
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