Social Activism In The Early 20th Century

In the early 20th century, the Progressive Movement of Era had a global social activism and political support and change across the United States. The goals they wanted to target were to seek to return control of the government to the people, political machines, restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustice. Muckrakers, such as Thomas Nast, Jacob Riis, U. Sinclair, F. Kelly, helped cities for better places to live, which was prohibition. Since, 1848 the National American Woman Suffrage Association seeked a suffrage amendment for women. Groups like The Women’s Christian Temperance Union made laws for prohibitions, such as ending child labor and making streets safe from crime. In England, Alice Paul and Lucy burns both sought money and supported factories. They showed women how laws can bring safety. Ruza then joined in on the safety as well.
“A vote is a fire escape.” Alice Paul had said this while her and her partner Burns visited the women working in the factory to try and convince them to join their protesting. Later the deadliest workplace accident in NYC happened. In March of 1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire broke out. With no fire escape their was 146 people dead. It could have been prevented by making more fire escapes, having windows, less occupancy, the list goes on... Since this was such tragic
The War Measures Act was a federal statute adopted by Parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the WWI. It gave broad power to the nurses for collectecting safety supplies to take cares of the kids, and maintain security/order during war or insurrection. Nurses managing families, men’s jobs, finances, and patriotism was put all before the Congress. Congress decide on the suffrage issue. We had that ratified granting made the lives of women and society better from their education, jobs, salary, medical field, politics, and