warm up 5/2 what problems do you think african- americans faced while fighting for their rights...
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Warm Up 5/2
What problems do you think African-Americans faced while fighting for their
rights during the Progressive Era? What problems do you think women faced?
Special Note: consider this as we move fwd into the last few
Progressive issues
Note: Throughout this unit we have talked about many different reforms. The majority of these reforms have
focused on mainly helping solve the problems of urban residents (right to vote, working conditions, child labor,
16th Amendment, living conditions, etc.), although many Americans were
affected as well
Who are suffragists?
Suffragists are people who fight for the right to vote
Women were sometimes known as suffragettes
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) created
Women’s Reform Leaders
Susan B Anthony – activist who worked towards gaining suffrage for women Created National
American Woman
Suffrage Association
(NAWSA)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
First president of a new women’s rights organization - National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
• Part of the early Women’s Rights Movement.
• Born 1815Died 1902
Women’s Reform Leaders Alice Paul – radical activist who worked
towards gaining suffrage for women. Part of “new generation.”
Leads to the passageof the 19th Amendment(1920)
19th Amendment
1920: the 19th Amendment is ratified Granted women the right to vote Approved by Pres. Wilson
Remember “The 1900 House”!
Why did the mother call the doctor? She was having shortness of breath
due to the tightness of her corset!
Margaret Sanger
Activist for more available birth control Went into tenements & witnessed
problems with large families living in poverty
Wanted women to have more control over economic & physical being
(Early) African American Civil Rights
African Americans were still fighting for basic rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution
Reminder of the Problems African Americans Faced
Voter Restrictions Poll Tax – Pay a fee to vote Literacy Test – prove you could read &
write to vote Grandfather Clause – exempts a group
of people from obeying a law provided they met certain conditions before law was passed
Reminder of the Problems African Americans Faced
Jim Crow Laws – System of laws that segregated public services by race
Additional Problems Faced byAfrican Americans
Lynching – mob’s illegal seizure & execution of a person, usually by hanging
Reminder of the Problems African Americans Faced
Plessy v. Ferguson – “Separate but Equal” (1896) Supreme Court ruled
against Homer Plessy saying segregation was legal as long as separate facilities were equal
African American Leaders
Booker T. Washington – encouraged African Americans to become educated & learn a trade
Est. Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Wanted to work slowly and diligently towards rights – nothing radical
African American Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois – encouraged Top 10% of African Americans to attend college & become leaders
Was more aggressive than Washington in his reform work
One of the founders of the N.A.A.C.P.
African American Leaders
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Worked through courts to gain
equal rights for African Am.
Regarding Child Labor
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
National Child Labor Act
Already discussed in Moral Reforms regarding education.
Mar. 25, 1911
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory operated on the top 3 floors of the 10 story Asche Building in New York City
Notice that the tallest ladders owned by the fire dept. only reach the 6th floor
• In 1911, Unsafe working conditions lead to a deadly fire
Eight months after the fire, a jury acquitted the factory owners, of any wrong doing.
Twenty-three individual civil suits were brought against the owners of the Asch building. On March 11, 1913, three years after the fire, the owners settled. They paid 75 dollars per life lost.
This tragedy led to a push for comprehensive safety and workers compensation laws.
EnvironmentGoal: to preserve
America’s land & nat’l parks
Land Preservationist and Conservationist John Muir (1838-1914),
Sierra Club Founder “Father of Our National
Parks” Inspired T. Roosevelt
programs such as the Antiquities Act (1906)