The Progressive Movement Unit; VA Standards of Learning

1. Progressive Movement
America’s Response to
Industrialization

2. The Century: America’s Time
Seeds of Change: 2 of 3
Start @ 1:47 - Stop at 8:20
- Steel Mills
- Child Labor
-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Progressive Movement
- Women’s Suffrage

3. 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

4. Immigrants
What groups in America needed help?
Child Laborers
Factory Workers
Women

5. K. Negative Effects of
Industrialization:
Child
Labor
Long Work
Hours & Low
Wages
Unsafe
Working
Conditions

6. 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”

7. Unsafe Working Conditions
-Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York

8. Introduction to Labor Unions:
Click on TV for
Intro Video

9. How did workers gain power to
change their working conditions?
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.”
L.
The History of
Labor Day

10. How did workers gain power to
change their working conditions?
2. Strikes
– The Homestead Strike
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike/videos#homestead-strike
L.

11. Labor Unions
& Strikes:

12. M. Progressive Movement Reforms
Improved Safety
Conditions in the
workplace
Reduced
Work Hours
Placed
Restrictions
on Child
Labor
Progressive
REFORMS

13. How Women’s Roles Began to
Change During the late 1800’s:
 Responsibilities at home lessened as families
became smaller, children spent time at school,
and men worked away from home.
 Labor saving products also made doing housework
easier.
 Washing Machine
 Electric Stoves
 Water Pumps

14. How Women’s Roles Began to
Change During the late 1800’s:
 More middle class women were becoming better
educated
 Women were starting careers…though mostly
limited to:
 Teaching
 Nursing
 Between 1890 and 1910, the number of women
working outside the home increased from 4 million
to 7.5 million!

15. But even though life was improving, life
in America was still tough for women…
 The main role for most women was to take care of
the home…
domesticity = home life or the devotion to it
 Women could not have custody of their children
 They could not own property
 Fathers, husbands, brothers, and even sons were
in charge of making decisions for most women
No Vote… so, no ability to change anything

16. Women’s Suffrage Movement:
 Some groups thought
giving women more
rights would upset
society’s “natural
balance” and would lead
to divorce and neglected
children.

17. Women’s Suffrage Movement:
Caption: “What, Dinner Not Ready Yet! What Have You Been Doing?”

18. Women’s
Suffrage Movement:
 Between 1910-1913, five
states gave women the right
to vote:
 Utah
 Idaho
 Washington (state)
 California
 Michigan
 Kansas
 Oregon
 Arizona
 Suffragists protested,
marched, led hunger strikes,
and more to demand the right
to vote!

19. N. 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.

20. N. Women’s Suffrage
Women’s suffrage
parade down Fifth
Avenue in NYC
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Susan B.
Anthony

21. 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

22. O. Temperance Movement - NOTES
1. The Temperance Movement was
composed of groups who wanted to
outlaw the making and consuming of
ALCOHOL.
Supported the 18thAmendment which
prohibited the manufacture, sale, or
transport
of alcoholic beverages

23. O. 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.

24. What happened AFTER the 18th
Amendment was passed?
Wait for the
PROHIBITION
Presentation to
find out…