The Progressive Era2

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Protestant clergy and women worked together to form temperance unions pushing for prohibition.
Prohibition which came in the form of the 18th Amendment, helped to solve these problems.
Many people who believed in societal reforms believed that alcohol caused abuse, accidents, and even unemployment.
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Marches, unions, most significantly the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote, helped to secure women's rights.
Women such as Jane Addams Margaret Sanger pushed for women's rights.
Women had few rights in the Progressive Era. They had unequal pay and they lacked the right to vote.
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President Theodore Roosevelt was Instrumental in using muckraking to push public safety bills.
Investigative journalism gave rise to muckrakers. The muckrakers were set on exposing the corruption in government and business. At the heart of muckraking was this corruption.
Anti-trust action and public safety bills such as the Pure Food and Drug Act satiated the demands of those inflamed by the muckraking.

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