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Progressive Movement
America’s Response to
Industrialization
The Century: America’s Time
Seeds of Change: 2 of 3Start @ 1:47 - Stop at 8:20
- Steel Mills
- Child Labor
-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Progressive Movement
- Women’s Suffrage
What groups in America needed help?
Immigrants
Child Laborers
Factory Workers
Women
L. Negative Effects of
Industrialization:
Child
Labor
Long Work
Hours & Low
Wages
Unsafe
Working
Conditions
Child Labor”Children were useful as laborers because their size allowed them
to move in small spaces in factories or mines where adults couldn't
fit, children were easier to manage and control and perhaps most
importantly, children could be paid less than adults. Child laborers
often worked to help support their families, but were forced to
forgo an education.” - History
Channel
Video: History Channel
“The Fight to End Child Labor”
Unsafe Working Conditions
-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York
How did workers gain power
to change their working
conditions?
Introduction to Labor Unions:
Click on TV for
Intro Video
1. Formation of Labor Unions– Growth of the American Federation
of Labor (AFL)
– “ …the AFL focused on securing for
its members higher wages, better
working conditions, and a shorter
work week.”
M. Rise of Organized Labor
The History of
Labor Day
2. Strikes– The Homestead Strike
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike/videos#homestead-strike
M. Rise of Organized Labor
Labor Unions
& Strikes:
Progressive…What does it mean?
• What is the root word in Progressive?
• Progress: “Steady improvement, as of a society or civilization”
• Does Progress have a prefix?
Pro = Positive
N
O. Progressive Movement Reforms
Improved Safety
Conditions in the
workplace
Reduced
Work Hours
Placed
Restrictions
on Child
Labor
Progressive
REFORMS
P. Women’s Suffrage Movement:
• The fight for women to
be able to vote.
• Voting = Suffrage
Women’s Suffrage Movement:
Caption: “What, Dinner Not Ready Yet! What Have You Been Doing?”
Q. Women’s Suffrage – NOTES
1. Increased Educational Opportunities for Women
2. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were key
leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
3. Attained Voting Rights: Women gained the right to vote
with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States of America.
Q. Women’s Suffrage
Women’s suffrage
parade down Fifth
Avenue in NYC
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Susan B.
Anthony
More Progressive Changes…
Anti-Alcohol Movement
Progressive reformers wanted to ban
alcohol for social reasons; others
wanted to ban it for religious or moral
reasons
R. Temperance Movement - NOTES
1. The goal of the Temperance
Movement was to outlaw the
making and consuming of
ALCOHOL.
R. Temperance Movement
2. The Temperance Movement supported the 18th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and
transport of alcoholic beverages.
History Channel:
18th & 21st Amendments
What happened AFTER the 18th
Amendment was passed?
Wait for the
PROHIBITION
Presentation to
find out…