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

18th – (1919) Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverages

19th - (1920) Women’s Suffrage (The right to vote)

21st – (1933) Repeal of Prohibition amendment

18th Amendment “Prohibition” also known as The

Temperance Movementhttp://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

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

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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

Two Famous Suffragettes

Susan B. Anthony and

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women gained voting rights

and increased educational

opportunities

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

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

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=relatedhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

Unsafe working conditions

The 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

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

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

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

The Homestead

StrikeIn1892 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

Progressive movement workplace reforms

* In the end, the Labor Unions had many successes

1) Improved safety conditions

2) Reduced work hours

3) 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

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!