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The Progressive Era Dbq

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2015: A promising year, full of opportunities, though less than 3 months away from coming to a close. Not more than 100 years ago, things were not the same as they exist now. Major problems were faced in eras such as the Progressive Era. Such problems that people faced back then were women’s suffrage, child labor, and deforestation. If I was born in the generation where I had where to choose where to place $1,000,000 to certain cause, I would give it to the three things I have stated.

In today’s society, women are starting to be seen as capable of functioning in our ever-changing world, but during the Progressive Era, women were seen as nothing more than synonymous to “maids”, as their primary focus was to “keep her house clean and wholesome …show more content…

Child labor was another problem presented at this time. At the rate they were going back in 1900, 26% of boys between ten and fifteen were already working, and for girls it was 10% (Background Essay). Child labor was increasing as fast as the children working were dying. An example of this tragic scenario was Dennis McKee, a 15-year-old boy who was smothered to death by coal (Document B). This boy had a family, and that family had to deal with the loss of their son, all to the fault of an industry that thought to use young, able-bodied boys for their work was a fantastic idea. If this had gone on for any longer than it did, it may have damaged the society greatly. What use are dead children to an advancing society in need of children that are, I don’t know, alive? The children are our future, and if they cease to exist, then our future may cease to exist as …show more content…

Deforestation is still an unbeleafable issue even to this day. With our trees being cut down to make supplies and furniture, we struggle with keeping our ratio of trees being destroyed and trees being planted equal. It seems like that was also the case in the past. There was a significant amount of trees being cut down in 1920, the land looking much more barren than it did in 1650 (Document A, map). These trees, some of them taking more than three thousand years to rise tall, are being cut down. They are being cut down for fun, or for as long as a dollar can be made out of it (Document A). These trees, as long as the ones cut down are replanted, could be used as the foundation for the future generation, serving as the paper bound by a cover, as the furniture used to live in, as part of the pencil to write their ingenious ideas on. Deforestation is still a problem today, but luckily for us there are trees still standing. Our mission is to keep them standing, or else our futures will burst into flames before our very eyes, like the firewood burned in a fireplace during

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The child labor was a huge problem in the United State. They would children doing dangerous jobs, some children would even die from doing these chores. The 1890s there were about 1 million 10 - 15 years olds who worked, that number had doubled by 1910. Industries even hired 5 and 6 year olds to work 18 hours a day. Along with this there were health conditions like miners inhaling stuff from the mines, glassworker exposed to intense heat and clam breakers would have cut on their hands from the tough shells.

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Even though the people running the factories made money because of child labor, It was unfair to youngsters because they could have gotten sick or injured and they didn't get to learn. Meanwhile, The people running the factories didn't have to work as hard. Children had to work long hours for little to no pay. They have the chance of getting hurt,or get sick because of the conditions of the factory.

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The Progressive Era was a period in the United States that changed the way people thought about things including labor and voting rights, politics, education, industry, etc. A vast amount of policies and laws came out of the Progressive Era that improved the lives of individual people and society. The policies that were established then continue to shape the U.S. government and economy today, including child labor and education laws, food-safety requirements, and granting women’s rights. Workplaces and other environments throughout society began to be perceived as humane, having no children working and no undesirable bones in the meat sent to be sold. Without such laws progressives and muckrakers pushed to achieve, America would certainly not

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Wages were so low, children had to go to work at soon as possible. Kids worked by dangerous machinery, one simple mistake and they would get hurt or killed. With the progressive movement child labor was exposed. In a factory, they would lock the children up so they could keep working. Many would get sick and diseases due to working in the factories. "

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Dangerous and Daring Have you ever thought of who made your clothes? Unfortunately, during the Industrial Revolution child labor was typical throughout the world. Adults were forcing young children to work in deadly conditions with very little pay. Parents of the children needed the money but hated seeing their children suffer through the physical pain. Children’s bosses were greedy and paid them under what they should’ve gotten.

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Cutting down trees and destroying environments is not only affecting us but innocent species as well. Our lives are very different from families in the 1990’s and

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Trees can produce different products that can be used for building and other day-to-day functions. In the text “tree Cutting Does Have Positive Environmental Consequences,” Bill Cook, a forester and wildlife biologist, describes that the construction of buildings would be impossible without cutting the trees for wood (Cook). For example, when building a house, construction workers first make the structure of the house from wood, before adding cement and any other building essentials. Paper products, such as toilet paper and boxes, are made from different parts of trees (Cook). The deforested trees are not being wasted because other parts of the tree will be used when necessary.

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People seeking to acquire riches and increase their wealth are more the willing to remove the perceived minimal societal gains from the forest resources in order to realize their monetary goals. The issue is not when an event of this kind happens just once. This deforestation becomes a problem when this happens thousands of times to the point where millions of acres are cleared. Half of the world’s tropical forests, which are about 3 million square miles out of the original 6 million square miles, have now been destroyed. Scientists have predicted that if we maintain our current rate of deforestation, that in 2030 there will only be 10% will remain (Nielsen

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The fact that machines started impacting industries led to child labor. The child labor that was being done was cruel where they were in ill working places getting neglected. In the British Parliament Investigators they asked,“Why do you allow your children to go to work at these places ill treated and overworked?” answered by “Necessity compels a man…” (SMW, P 166).

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By 1940, the CCC had planted more than 3.5 billion trees on barren land . In hindsight, the CCC was subject to being that responsible for over half of the public and private reforestation in all of the nation’s history

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These outcomes were in terms of housing, children in the labor force, women’s work and the conditions of work for women and children, as well as work done with the issue of sanitation (lecture). “An important point mentioned with regards to the Charity Organization Movement was that the movement illustrates how a specific class of women, which was protestant, white, and upper class was now engaging in the public sphere, in terms of politics (lecture).” An example is the Temperance movement which up until that point had been a man’s domain and when women started getting involved, this represented middle class reactions to the disorder of another class, where the middle class had not been separated from other classes and the moral corruption of the working class was on public display (p102). Alcohol and the use of alcohol was gendered as well as the realities of marriage at this time, where alcohol was consumed primarily by men and in areas dominated by men such as bars and brothels and in a world where morally upright, respectable women were excluded (p.102). Besides the Temperance Movement, women also participated in the abolition movement and during this time is when women’s rights took a pause to focus more on war relief and this was also a time where technological innovations changed women’s work in the private sphere.

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Child labor was a great problem in the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners usually hired women and children rather than men. They said that men expected higher wages, and they suspected that they were more likely to rebel against the company. Women and children were forced to work from six in the morning to seven at night, and this was when they were not so busy. They were forced to arrive on time and they couldn’t fall behind with their work because if they did they were whipped and punished.

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One of the most harrowing experiences of the Victorian Age was Child Labor. In my essay, I shall be discussing some of the trying tasks these young children had to endure during the nineteenth century. I will also be talking about some of the children’s detailed accounts of what it was like working in the factories, the mills, and the streets of London to survive the dismal period of child labor. I am also going to include secondary sources that I gathered to focus the attention on child labor as well. My essay will also depict why child labor is fully viewed as an atrocious act.

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They can’t defend their homes against machinery and humans that threaten to destroy them. It’s up to us; it’s up to all of us who care about our planet, its well being and all of its inhabitants to take a stand to stop deforestation. A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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Iris Zieler Child labor How did the use of child labor affect individuals, the community, and/or the world? Key words: Child labor - When children have to work in factories hurt - When you are physically damaged died - When you have no more life, or you are too hurt to function dangerous - When something bad can happen factories - Where lots of machines are and where you make things machines - They are used to make items or make the process of making items faster Child labor was not a fun time for the families. Children were in danger all the time and many families lost their children. Many people were against it, but could do anything because they needed the money and the government was able to make it better, but not stop it, until a long time after.

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