Transcript Unit 3: Lecture 3 - Ms. Kramer's Class

American Minorities in the Progressive Era
Lecture Review Questions
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1. Identify three main minority groups that struggled
to gain rights during the progressive era.
2. How did progressivism help further the goal’s of
the women’s suffrage movement?
3. In what ways did minorities suffer most during the
Gilded Age, and how did they begin fight back?
What is Progressivism?
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 It was a shared belief that industrialization &
urbanization created troubling social and political
problems.
 Progressives wanted to create reforms that would
correct these problems and injustices.
What problems did women face
during the Gilded Age?
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 Women wanted to expand their
roles in their community beyond
being wives and mothers.
 Work was difficult to find, and
often included long hours &
dangerous conditions.
 Women often had little to no
education which left them
vulnerable to being cheated or
bullied by employers.
What problems did women face
during the Gilded Age?
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Work was difficult to find, and often included
long hours & dangerous conditions.
Women often had little to no education which left
them vulnerable to being cheated or bullied by
employers.
How did women of the progressive era
make progress and win the right to vote?
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Women began to become politically
active forming organizations for every
reform issue.
 Temperance- Make Alcohol illegal!
 Suffrage- Women’s Right to Vote
 Women’s Labor Unions
 Birth Control
 Child Labor Laws
How did women of the progressive era
make progress and win the right to vote?
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 Lobbying Congress to pass a
constitutional amendment
(19th) that would give women
the right to vote.
 Carrie Chapman Catt
&NAWSA
 Alice Paul & NWP
 Held public protests marches,
picketed, & led hunger strikes.
 19th & 18th Amendments to
Constitution were significant
victories for the women’s
rights movement
What problems did minorities
face during the Gilded Age?
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 African Americans
 Failure of Reconstruction
 Plessy v. Furguson
 Jim Crow
 Native Americans
 Dawes Act
 Assimilate
 Immigrants
What steps did minorities take to combat
social problems & discrimination?
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 Minorities United to form social justice groups &
self-help agencies.
 NAACP
 Urban League
 Anti-Defamation League
 Groups like NAACP took legal action
 Many groups spoke out publically to raise awareness
 Some minority leaders ran for public office.