Progressive Movement
America’s Response to Industrialization
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
You don’t need to do the activities…just watch the movie. Stop the video when the written activity
starts.
M. Rise of Organized Labor
1. Formation of Labor Unions
– Growth of the American
Federation of Labor (AFL)
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HIGHER WAGES
BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS
SHORTER WORK WEEK
The History of
Labor Day
M. Rise of Organized Labor
2. Strikes
– The Homestead Strike
- One of Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Mills
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike/videos#homestead-strike
Labor Unions
& Strikes:
N.
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
What was the Progressive Movement?
Movement to IMPROVE the lives of ALL AMERICANS.
O. Progressive Movement Reforms
Progressive
REFORMS
Improved
Safety
Conditions in
the workplace
Reduced
Work
Hours
Placed
Restrictions
on Child
Labor
P. Women’s Suffrage Movement:
What was the Women’s
Suffrage Movement?
• The fight for women
to be able to vote.
• SUFFRAGE = VOTING
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
Susan B.
Anthony
Women’s suffrage
parade down Fifth
Avenue in NYC
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
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
*DON’T WRITE THIS DOWN…NOTES ARE ON THE NEXT SLIDE
R. Temperance Movement - NOTES
1. The goal of the Temperance
Movement was to outlaw the
making and consuming of
ALCOHOL.
R. Temperance Movement
History Channel:
18th & 21st Amendments
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.
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What happened AFTER the
Amendment was passed?
Wait for the
PROHIBITION
Presentation to
find out…