UNIT #5 – PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT LESSON #2 – Reforming Society (165-168)

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UNIT #5 – PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT LESSON #2 – Reforming Society ( )

Women’s Suffrage Should women have equal citizenship rights as men? SUFFRAGE = As early as 1848, they were meeting to discuss getting the right to vote Read EARLY CHALLENGES (p. 165) What is the suffragist movement? What changed in 1920 in this movement? (166)

Reforming Society What were some social problems the progressives wanted to fix? (p.166) What did their charities do? What they hope their laws would do?

Child Labor How many hours a day do you think a child under 10 should work? Why? What were the breaker boys?

Health and Safety Codes Adults existed in poor conditions, too. Factories and mines were dangerous. People got injured. What do you think all employers should guarantee their workers? List the minimum standards that now exist (p. 167)

Reacting to events… Note the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY. More new laws were created from that disaster to protect workers than any other in US history. What changes should be made in the law to protect workers?

Prohibition movement Since about 90% of all of criminals in our prisons are drug and alcohol related, what should we do to decrease their occurrence? The women’s suffrage movement embraced the prohibition movement. What was the goal of this movement? (168)