Women's Rights During The Industrial Revolution

The American Public addressed the issues that were associated with the Industrial Revolution through expanding their scope of political activism. One of the key features that came from the Industrial Revolution was that women were beginning to get more social roles in the work economy, eventually they began seeing issues with the current system and with what they wanted to do in society, later on the role of women in the work force grew when women began to demand more rights and became more socially active in gaining the rights that they believed to have deserved. During the Industrial Revolution there was a rise in the calling for social equality through out the nation, every race wanted to have the same freedoms as the white American that

These are just three of the major factors that helped the American public become more politically active when it came to determine and fixing the key problems that seemed to have followed the Industrial Revolution when it came to one of the first economic growths in American history. Throughout the Industrial Revolution the role of women began to expand as women’s roles in society began to expand in size and in influence, soon women began to want more equal rights with their male counter parts and thus became more socially and politically active in their time period. One of the first pushes for women’s rights came from the suffrage movement in 1917 which gave women for the first time the right to vote in politics, this movement was led by a woman known as Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw, with their leadership and talk about the movement from higher up people in the

During the time of the Industrial Revolution the African American community was one of the least cared for groups in the United States social and economic system, even during and after the Industrial Revolution they were discriminated against, for instance there were companies that denied them jobs purely based purely on the fact that they were African American and not based on their skill capabilities. Throughout the industrial revolution African Americans were scene as what was known as unskilled laborers and were purposefully denied jobs. “Some professions used their entrance requirements to exclude African Americans, women, immigrants, and other “undesirables” from their ranks” . This article speaks about how the expanse of skill in labor allowed businesses to have almost like entrance exams that could be passed to receive a job, but in some cases, they were rigged to purposefully deny a job position to people who did not appear as a white male. for example, they could ask a question that would require tons of funding for schooling and years of education to answer, which at the time was not something readily available to African Americans at the time. However one of the biggest advocated