Progressive Era
The Progressive Era had a number of sources how the reform got on its way. With its increase in productivity and number of consumer goods, Industrialization created unemployment, wasteful natural resources, and abuse from corporate powers. Growing Cities magnified problems of poverty, disease, crime, and corruption. Another source for progressive reform is the arrival of immigrants. And last but not least the massive depression that hit in 1893- 1897 made people realize that equal opportunity was the goal many Americans had to reach for. It was the goal of woman to have the same rights as their brothers did too. "I hold that woman has as good and rightful a claim to them as her brother, and that the man who denies this claim is not only no good democrat, and much less a good republican, but that in being guilty of this denial he commits an act of the grossest injustice and oppression." (Bloomer) While the number of employed women stayed constant from 1900-1920 (20%), the type of work switched from domestic labor (servants, cooks, laun
"What a pity she is not a boy!" He saw that such talent in a boy would be likely to make him famous and enrich the world. ¨ National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection: "It has always been as now; women never have had equal rights, and that is proof that they should not have." (Bloomer) Besides the fact that men were not for the women suffrage movement women were also opposed. In 1911 The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) was organized. Led by Mrs. Arthur Dodge, its members included wealthy, influential women and some Catholic clergymen--including Cardinal Gibbons who, in 1916, sent an address to NAOWS's convention in Washington, D.C. In addition to the distillers and brewers, who worked largely behind the scenes, the "antis" also drew support from urban political machines, Southern congressmen, and corporate capitalists--like railroad magnates and meatpackers--who supported the "antis" by contributing to their "war chests."( Feldmeth) ¨ Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources" http://l
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