DBQ 1: Women’s Suffrage Analyze and compare the major points of view concerning suffrage and the ways in which individual commentators believed woman suffrage would affect the political and social order. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries women were being oppressed by not being allowed to vote‚ this made them less “value” as compared to the male gender. The point of view concerning woman suffrage was greatly affected by the gender role and the political standing of the person in question
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During the Progressive Era numerous reforms were made; all of which were part of varying reform movements. Reforms were made to timeless issues such as education‚ government‚ and business. However‚ reforms were also made to new ideas such as conservation. Up until the Progressive Era there was no emphasis placed on conservation because there had always been a surplus of resources in America. During the Progressive Era‚ on the other hand‚ resources were being used up exponentially due to factors such
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Women faced many obstacles during the late 1800’s while struggling to gain the right to vote. Women vote today because of the women’s suffrage movement‚ a courageous and persistent political campaign which lasted over 72 years‚ and involved thousands of women around America. The women’s suffrage campaign is of enormous political and social significance yet it is virtually unacknowledged in the chronicles of American history. Maybe if the suffrage movement had not been so ignored by historians‚ women
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Progressive DBQ At the start of the 20th century‚ the United States were experiencing many changes in the ways that their economics and politics operated. After the Civil War‚ Restoration‚ and the Gilded Age‚ the Progressive Era was a time the United States could establish the principles of the country and begin to build what America is today‚. With large monopolies running the nation’s economy‚ such as those run by J.P. Morgan‚ Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and Vanderbilt‚ many people sought Reformation
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that happened in the Progressive Era was the status of women. In the late 19th century‚ middle-class women created settlement houses in poor and urban neighborhoods‚ so they could carry out reform work in the surrounding neighborhoods. As these houses grew and evolved‚ settlement house workers started lobbying local‚ state‚ and national governments to pass reform legislation like minimum wage‚ workplace safety standards‚ and sanitation regulations. These settlement houses gave women a setting where they
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Following the victory of the Suffrage movement with the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 many in the women’s movement were left wondering‚ what’s next? Suffrage was the attainment of a goal of generations of women‚ and with its passage‚ to paraphrase Plutarch‚ what worlds were left to be conquered? Writing in the Historian‚ Peter Geidel states that it was at this point that the women’s movement splintered into schools: The Social Feminists and the Feminists”. According to Geidel
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From the progressive trailblazers who fought for suffrage in the late 19th century and early 20th century‚ to the fearless nurses who aided our soldiers in the first World War‚ women had worked tirelessly in the Progressive Era to redefine their cultural expectations and social image. Starting with the 15th amendment to the Constitution‚ an era of nonstop effort was made in civil rights to reform both legislation and social expectations concerning the equality of all people. Women played an integral
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equality were harder to achieve for African Americans and women during the 19th century. During this time‚ women were struggling with basic human rights such as the right to vote‚ equality‚ and an education. Certain ethnic groups such as African Americans had additional struggles due to slavery‚ discrimination‚ and strenuous limitations to their rights. With these issues‚ the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements came to life.
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Progressive Era and the New Deal (Question 5) During the Progressive Era‚ the reformers were stricter and did not provide direct help‚ while the reformers in the New Deal were a little more direct in helping Americans. The progressive era policies were more concerned with correcting the society. All three presidents during this time period‚ including Theodore Roosevelt‚ Howard Taft‚ and Woodrow Wilson‚ implemented some progressive reforms. It was the government’s policy to correct social and economic
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Yu “Star” Zhang AMST 3225W AMST 3252W Final Paper Progressive Era: The Rising Power of Women We define the Progressive Era the time in American history at the turning point of the 20th century‚ the time when industrial Revolution has brought along rapid industrialization and economic development‚ but also severe conflicts in social groups. Between 1890s through 1920‚ waves of immigrations from outside of United States were arriving‚ numerous large cities were expanding‚ and as a result
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