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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…