Child labor the 1870 census found that 1 out of every 8 children was employed. This rate
increased to more than 1 in 5 children by 1900. Between 1890 and 1910, no less than 18
percent of all children ages 10‒15 worked. Social Gospel movement supported legislation for
an eight-hour work day, the abolition of child labor and government regulation of business
monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an
American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who
served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. The Suffrage Movement
refers, specifically, to the seventy-two-year-long battle for woman's right to vote in the United
States. Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany,
or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and
incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society.