Unit 3 Expansion, Industrialization & Progressive Era 1890-1915
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1890 – 1920 Progressive Reform
Negative Effects of Industrialization
Progressive MovementReforms
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Industrialization created many industries with harsh working conditions. People
demanded reform and change, but it took years of struggle.
Progressive reformers applied a systematic approach to problems facing Americans in the workplace and at home.
Progressives addressed workplace efficiency and safety standards, child labor, workmen's compensation, minimum wages, and working hours for women. Improvements at home included an increased emphasis on education, helping immigrant families, Prohibition, curbing prostitution, public health, and municipal services.
1890 – 1920 Progressive Reform
Women’s Suffrage
Prohibition
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1890 – 1920 The Progressive Movement
Child Factory Workers
Negative effects of industrialization
Progressive Movement
workplace reforms
-crowded, unsafe cities, poor sanitation, political corruption-Child labor-Low wages….. …..long hours-Unsafe working conditions
-Improved safety conditions-Reduced work hours-Restrictions on child labor-WA State: Initiatives=citizens could pass laws through petitionReferendums-citizens allowed to vote for/against laws already passed by legislature-recall public officials
Industrialization created many industries with harsh working conditions. People demanded reform and change, but it took
years of struggle.© Michael Goldfein
1890 – 1920 The Progressive Movement
Women’s Suffrage
Temperance Movement
- WA State Constitutional amendment gave women rights: vote in state/local elections, held public office, serve on juries
- WA was the 5th state to pass suffrage laws in the US, 10 years before….
- Women gain right to vote nationwide / 19th Amendment to Constitution
- Composed of groups opposed to making and consuming of alcohol. - Believed drinking by men ruined families.- Supported passage of 18th Amendment to Constitution
banning manufacture and sale of alcohol.- WA wasn’t as “dry” as other states because of smuggling
from Canada
© Michael Goldfein