Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

My academic journey has not been smooth or easy, but it has helped to create the person I am today: an inquisitive, intelligent, driven, resourceful woman with the courage to challenge myself with demanding goals and the confidence to know that I am capable of achieving them. I was a model student throughout my early years of school, achieving good grades and demonstrating a tremendous interest in learning; however, when I became the victim of bullying incidents in high school, my academic…

During the early 1900s both the federal government and Progressive Era reformers effectively worked to bring about change through laws of consumer protection, movements towards legislative and election reform, and labor reforms. During the early 1900s many licensing programs developed to standardize professions and new laws emerged with the goal of making goods safer for consumers. The American Medical Association (AMA), an organization of doctors and medical students, was formed in 1901 by…

labor pool promised a quick replacement for any worker who fell, became injured, or died” (Marshall, “Second Industrial Revolution”). Also, possibly the most well known industrial accident in US History occurred during this era. “A fire at New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911 killed 146 workers, most of them teenage immigrant women trapped in locked workrooms” (Mary Beth Norton, A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2012. Print.). Also, the…

Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, and Frances Perkins were three of the many women who helped evolve equal work rights for all. Without them women might not have the opportunities in the works force that they do today. Before the women if the 1800’s tried to change the ways of society gender discrimination had a negative effect that impacted many lives throughout the nation. Emma Goldman was born in June of 1869 to an Orthodox Jewish family, her family lived in the Russian Empire. Because of where…

In September of 1935, her voice filled homes across America as she explained the latest piece of legislation that was passed by Congress: the Social Security Act. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was known as a social reformer and advocate for workers. As time passed on, her name was erased from the memories of the New Deal era, but much of her work, including the Social Security Act and standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor, has survived. Although the average American citizen…

DBQ The Progressive Era, 1900-1920, can be defined as a reform movement aimed toward urban and social change through improvements in the nation. This era stemmed from American industrialization and a population growth. Also, the Progressive Era emerged from past movements such as abolitionism, women’ rights, temperance, and the regulation of big businesses. Some of the main goals of the progressives included breaking trusts, ending political reform, bettering living conditions, and establishing…

To understand the emergence of the Populists and Progressives, it must be understood why these groups came to be. Increasing industrialization, urbanization and immigration were factors reshaping American society following reconstruction. The emergence of both Populists and Progressives was a response to a growing industrial economy that resulted in disparities between rich and poor, increasing social and political conflict. The solutions of the Populists and Progressives were varied however…

As radical progressives fought to change conservative America, a group of Protestant ministers organized the Social Gospel movement to instill religious ethics into the business world. 18. Congregational minister Washington Gladden started a ministry for working-class neighborhoods and favored sanctions to improve workers’ rights. 19. Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, proclaimed that Christians should endorse social reform to end poverty and labor abuse. 20. According to…