The Progressive Movement emerged in response to the negative social impacts of industrialization in America in the late 19th/early 20th century. Child labor was common, factory workers faced long hours, low wages, and unsafe conditions. Events like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire increased calls for reform. Progressives fought to establish labor unions, impose new safety regulations, restrict child labor, and reduce work hours to improve conditions for workers. The Women's Suffrage Movement also grew during this time to advocate for women's right to vote.

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

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

5. 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”

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

7. How did workers gain power
to change their working
conditions?

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

9. M. Rise of Organized Labor
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.”
The History of
Labor Day

10. M. Rise of Organized Labor
2. Strikes
– The Homestead Strike
http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-strike/videos#homestead-strike

11. Labor Unions
& Strikes:

12. 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
N

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

14. P. Women’s Suffrage Movement:
• The fight for women to
be able to vote.
• Voting = Suffrage

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

16. 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.

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

18. 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

19. R. Temperance Movement - NOTES
1. The goal of the Temperance
Movement was to outlaw the
making and consuming of
ALCOHOL.

20. 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.

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