Progressive Era
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- Urban
- Ma'am, I'm a nurse. Can I help you?
- "Confess your sins and thou shalt be saved."
- Prohibition
- Closed on Sunday
- Mama, can we get candy?
- Timmy's Tavern
- Just plain crazy! Having the tavern closed! Crazy!
- General Store
- No dear, remember? The General Store is closed on Sunday.
- Closed on Sunday
- Labor Issues
- PICKET LADIES TAILORS STRIKERS
- PICKET LADIES TAILORS STRIKERS
- PICKET LADIES TAILORS STRIKERS
- PICKET LADIES TAILORS STRIKERS
- The Urban houses of 1889 boasted the needs of the poor. Because of the poor housing situation Jane Adams was encouraged to open a Hull House; followed later, in 1993, by Lillian Wald, who along with several other nurses, did their part by practicing nursing in the poor communities. Churches also established their own way of helping called "social gospel" by not only reaching people with the gospel but also by reforming society.
- Muckraking
- "Reformers pointed to links between drinking, prostitution, wife and child abuse, unemployment, and industrial accidents." Progressives campaigned to enforce having taverns, stores, and other commercial establishments to be closed on Sunday and to make a law against selling alcohol. In 1912 seven states were without alcohol and were "dry'. In 1917 the Eighteenth Amendment was passed and it eliminated the sale, transportation and manufacture of alcohol.
- Women's Rights
- It's finally happening. I can vote for who I believe is the best candidate.
- At last women can vote! How exciting!
- To protest against the low wages, unsafe working conditions, and managements refusal to recognize their workers Union, International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union, the workers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company went on strike. By February of 1910 their efforts had paid off and many of their important demands were met.
- Government Reforms
- Welcome! My goal is to teach you and help you better understand.
- When President Roosevelt was in office, corporate and political wrongdoing and injustice filled the papers making them popular and successful. Roosevelt warned the people involved in this injustice and made reference to a character in "Pilgrims Progress", "that was too busy raking muck to notice higher things." Thus came the word muckraker. Muckraking was used in providing help to secure progressive legislation.
- What you're writing isn't just. "Don't go to far."
- Even though it was now the twentieth century women still were not allowed to vote. Alice Paul founded the National Women's Party, it became the radical voice of the suffrage movement. In 1919 the Nineteenth Amendment passed which gave women the right to vote.
- Racism was still an issue against African American people. Booker T. Washington, a former slave, opened Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to educate African Americans on vocational skills. In 1895 Washington gave a speech that came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise. Booker T. Washington became the national spokesman for African Americans.
- A chance to finally learn.
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