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Dbq Reformers In The Late 1800s And Early 1900

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In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s reformers in the United States were trying different methods to advance the country. The reformers had different goals such as earning women suffrage and assisting the poor. The reformers had their methods to help bring about change in society. Reformers had different goals and methods to help change the society. The reformers had goals to earning women suffrage, and methods to help achieve that goal. For example women wanted the right to vote, in document 5 it shows how women feel they have no voice either in the election or legislation. In the 19th amendment women got the right to vote. The reformers method to getting women the right to vote was raising public awareness, in document 7 it shows how a member …show more content…

In document 2 it shows how people are living in tenement buildings with small spaces. Tenement buildings don’t have that much space for many people to live in, and if someone gets sick everyone in that small space will get sick as well. Jacob Riis took these 2 photos from document 2 to show how the other half of the people live in tenement building and how they are suffering. The reformers method to achieve their goal is to establish the social organization centered in The Hull House. In document 7 it states that the poor will receive a helping hand whether they wish to educate themselves or to find work. This method shows how the program is helped people out of education and finding jobs. This shows how the reformers had goals and method for assisting the poor. In conclusion, reformers had goals and methods to achieve their goals. The reformers goal were women suffrage and assisting the poor. Their methods to achieve their goals were raising public awareness for women suffrage, and creating a social organization to help the poor out. All in this proves in the 1800’s and early 1900’s reformers in the unites states had their own goals and trying different methods to advance the

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For example, the improvement of working conditions in America. At the time, working conditions were very poor, and the workers were paid very little. Since there were not any regulations employers were able to over work there employees. Even children were being over worked, but they needed to, otherwise their families could not eat. Both parties focused on the reformation and modernization of

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Reform movements sought to expand democratic ideals in the years 1825 to 1850. These reform movements ranged from religion to women’s rights. While some movements were a success there were failures as well such as nativism and utopias. They failed to exemplify to democratic society. The reform movements were ignited by the Second Great Awakening.

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Amiah Terrell Walls 3 Gifted World Literature 13 March, 2016 Inconsistency in Strongly Held Beliefs Four years after Anna Howard Shaw gave her famous speech, "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic", women gained the right to vote everywhere in the United States. Suffragists, women’s rights activists in the early 20th century, worked to gain this fundamental right for years through speeches, protests, an events, but any bill that would bring progress to their movement had been shot down by the supreme court or other U.S government branches every time. Individual states granted some voting rights to women, but they would have only been able to vote in state elections previous to 1919. Anna Shaw was on the cutting edge of the suffragist’s

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During the 1800s, Activists promoted reforms in attempt to change the American society. They tried to make reforms to eliminate social problems and voice out for minorities like women and slaves. However, not all reforms had successfully united the nation, some might even cause unnecessary separation. For instance, the new wave of immigrants sparked prejudice and discrimination in the society.

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This movement fought for the right for women to vote because women were denied the democratic rights that were given to men and were forced to focus on the cult of domesticity. The movement started in the late eighteenth century however it was renewed during the Second Great Awakening when reform movements started gaining popularity. The suffrage movement was aided by the abolition movement because slavery gave women a reason to unite for a separate cause. This was a new reform movement, unlike women’s suffrage and abolition, which both had roots that were as deep as those of the country’s, and was unique because of the unusually undemocratic responses that society and its people reacted with. Unlike abolition and women’s suffrage, the asylum and penitentiary reform movement did not gather popularity

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Margaret Crocco explained, “This network of suffrage societies, temperance organizations, and women’s club exhibited tremendous creativity and tenacity nearly 100 years it took to gain women suffrage,”(Crocco). This shows that women create a society just for the suffrage movement, they joined together as women in need to change the society they live in. They put extremely hard work and even after 50 years they kept going until they reached their goal. This goal took about 100 years, this is prove of their passion and determination to

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Jane Addams The Progressive Era, 1890-1920, accomplished great change in the Unites States of America. Many reformers and activits demanded for change in education, food and drug policies, and most importantly the govermenet. The goal for the movement was the purify the nation. One of the main activits during this time was Jane Addams. Jane Addams is often refered to as a social and political pioneer.

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Overall, the goal was to bring order and efficiency to a world full of transformations by growth and new technology. Do you think the progressives successfully achieved their goal by transformations? Temperance laws were passed by religious leaders and social reformers. Additionally, the textbook mentions that progressives saw the urban dance hall and move theater as threats to youthful minds. The Progressive party in Chicago convention seemed like a religious revival or a social work conference.

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The Roaring Twenties, characterized as a progressive era toward changes and advances, it was a start for freedom and independence for women. Women gained political power by gaining the right to vote. They changed their traditional way to be, way to act and dress to gain respect, and the liberty of independence. Society had different ways of ideals and the ways women were willing to do were disapproved of, and it was wrong for lots of different people, including women from the older generation. In the 1920’s women went through a lot of changes that made them a free spirit, changes that made them what they are now and having the liberty of being independent.

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women in general were not respected and in most aspects during this time period they were either child rearing or working out of factories. You could not possibly treat women like fragile individuals who weren 't compotent enough to vote or enjoy basic rights men were given but hardened enough to work for wages in facotories. you could not expect women to rear children and not inqure more about their secuality in general and this is what fueled this new feminism. The goal of new feminism was to let women enjoy the basic rights males were taken for granted. What the new feminist movement tried to accomplish was freedom freedom mentaly, freedom to have children or the freedom to choose not to, the freedom to marry or to experiment sexually basically to not be tied down by stereotypical gender

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During Progressive Era, there were many reforms that occurred, such as Child Labor Reform or Pure Food and Drug Act. Women Suffrage Movement was the last remarkable reform, and it was fighting about the right of women to vote, which was basically about women’s right movement. Many great leaders – Elizabeth Cad Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Although those influential leaders faced hardship during this movement, they never gave up and kept trying their best. This movement was occurred in New York that has a huge impact on the whole United States.

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During Progressive Era, there were many reforms that occurred, such as Child Labor Reform or Pure Food and Drug Act. Women Suffrage Movement was the last remarkable reform. This movement was fighting about the right of women to vote, which was basically about women’s right movement. Many great leaders – Elizabeth Cad Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Although those influential leaders faced hardship during this movement, they never gave up and kept trying their best.

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In doing so, the reformers hoped to meet the material needs of an increasingly urban and industrial society. The reformist movement ultimately propagandized the reconstruction of the rural society through their movements in agriculture and social welfare. Another instrumental way the reformers promoted progressivism was through the educational sector. This is illustrated through the educational movements in summer camps in Ontario as well as rural education in Nova

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For fifty years women had been struggling for their right and still had made no progress. John D. Fair states, “The women’s suffrage movement in Great Britain has suffered from the misconception that it was through the urgings, exertions and sacrifices of women exclusively prior to 1918 that the vote was finally achieved.” One of the reasons for this standstill by 1914 and the failure of the suffrage campaign is because the suffrage movement alienated the government. Particularly, the activities of the militant suffragists who belonged to the WSPU. These women engaged in violent and often criminal activities as a form of protest in order to gain support and convince the British parliament to give them the vote.

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Considering all of this, it can be seen that the creation of W.S.P.U. and the emergence of the suffragette movement promoted the idea rebel women, in a society which had fix ideals about women and their role within society. The struggle for women’s suffrage was not easy to pull off and the achievement of the vote took several years. The very first achievement in terms of the vote for women came in at 1918 when women over the age of 30 were allowed to vote, but the fully to vote women came in the year 1928 in the United

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