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The Progressive Movement Progressive = Change

The Progressive Movement Progressive = Change. These changes included: Women’s suffrage The Temperance Movement Child Labor Unsafe working conditions The rise of Labor Unions. Progressive Era Amendments. 18 th – (1919) Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverages

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The Progressive Movement Progressive = Change

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  1. The Progressive MovementProgressive = Change • These changes included: • Women’s suffrage • The Temperance Movement • Child Labor • Unsafe working conditions • The rise of Labor Unions

  2. Progressive Era Amendments • 18th – (1919) Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverages • 19th - (1920) Women’s Suffrage (The right to vote) • 21st – (1933) Repeal of Prohibition amendment

  3. 18th Amendment “Prohibition” also known as The Temperance Movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiYqFXmVAFg&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1 Prohibited the production, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States

  4. Carrie Nation and her “Hatchetations” Biggest group behind Temperance movement was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Carrie became the face (and ammo) of the movement

  5. Women’s Suffrage Women gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L13b0t9aARY&feature=related

  6. Two Famous SuffragettesSusan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women gained voting rights and increased educational opportunities

  7. 21st AmendmentRepeal of Prohibition • Prohibition amendment was so controversial, that it became one of the central issues of the1932 Presidential election • FDR ran and won on a platform which included an end to Prohibition • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeMD057wcU&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  8. Progressive movement workplace reforms • Were needed because of these three negative effects of industrialization • 1) Unsafe working conditions • 2) Low wages and long hours • 3) Child Labor

  9. Lewis Hine and Child LaborHe used photographs of children working to try to reform ( and end) child labor practices http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tY1gk6J6zc&feature=related http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

  10. Unsafe working conditionsThe Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911 • Locked exits and a faulty fire escape led to the deaths of 146 women working in the factory • This was one of the tragic events that led to workplace reforms • http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/trianglefire.html

  11. Samuel Gompers and the rise of Labor Unions He began the American Federation of Labor (also called the AFL) It was one of the most powerful Labor Unions

  12. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 1.6 million members by 1904 • - Dissatisfied workers organized into groups to demand better pay and working conditions from their employers

  13. One method was to go on strike. Strikes were often violent and deadly and many people did not support this lawless disorder.

  14. The Homestead Strike In1892 Workers went on strike at Carnegies steel plant in Homestead, PA Strike was a failure since the strikers were immediately replaced by non-union strikebreakers

  15. Progressive movement workplace reforms * In the end, the Labor Unions had many successes • Improved safety conditions • Reduced work hours • Placed restrictions on Child Labor *Expanding Education – In 1865 most children attended school for only 4 years, By 1914 80% of all children (ages 5-17) were enrolled in school

  16. Discrimination against Native Americans • Native Americans did not receive any citizenship rights in the United States until 1924. • This means that they were the last group of people to be given Constitutional rights!

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