The top three reform movements from the period between 1880-1990 based on impact and social significance to society would be 1) Progressivism, 2) Civil Rights, and 3) Women’s suffrage. Those three reform movements were selected are because each of them created conditions of conflict that affected the results of other movements and in many respects still influence Americans today. The following provides insight into why those three reform movements had the most importance to the U.S. The Progressivism movement was defined by a culmination of political innovation and social activism used to address the social ills created by massive corporations and the barons of industry that created deplorable situations such as unsanitary work conditions,
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To address economic inequalities during the Progressivism movement, Congress passed the 16th Amendment that created a Progressive Income tax. By establishing health standards for food, Theodore Roosevelt had legislated the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 that mandated food and medicine have government inspectors, which was a reaction that occurred after the public's reaction from by author Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle (1906). The plethora of issues influenced by the Progressivism movement was incredibly wide and diverse that provided justice and societal social standards leading to a much greater standard of living for Americans through wealth distribution, health, social, and even gender because women also had begun to get more educated and access to work that previously was never available to …show more content…
The women’s suffrage movement provided a democracy to a major portion of the U.S. population that had no voice in terms of politics previously. The main supporters of the movement began with the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose campaigns undeniably influenced legislation of women’s suffrage at the state level, specifically in the Western region of the U.S. and eventually spilled to every state east of the Mississippi. Many of the results from what were defined under the Progressivism movement, can be directly attributed to the women’s suffrage movement, such as pushing for legislation for child-care centers, government inspection of food, establishing the 8-hour work day, and establishing regulation of child labor that eventually banned child labor altogether. So essentially the women’s suffrage movement had prompted women to become more involved in social justice reforms. Incidents such as NAWSA’s 5,000 person suffragist protests led by Alice Paul during President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration resulted in her being jailed and supporting the infamous hunger strike, that led to an even controversial scenario where she was force fed food through her nose, that created obvious criticism of the incident by the Press. Eventually, through
To address economic inequalities during the Progressivism movement, Congress passed the 16th Amendment that created a Progressive Income tax. By establishing health standards for food, Theodore Roosevelt had legislated the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 that mandated food and medicine have government inspectors, which was a reaction that occurred after the public's reaction from by author Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle (1906). The plethora of issues influenced by the Progressivism movement was incredibly wide and diverse that provided justice and societal social standards leading to a much greater standard of living for Americans through wealth distribution, health, social, and even gender because women also had begun to get more educated and access to work that previously was never available to …show more content…
The women’s suffrage movement provided a democracy to a major portion of the U.S. population that had no voice in terms of politics previously. The main supporters of the movement began with the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose campaigns undeniably influenced legislation of women’s suffrage at the state level, specifically in the Western region of the U.S. and eventually spilled to every state east of the Mississippi. Many of the results from what were defined under the Progressivism movement, can be directly attributed to the women’s suffrage movement, such as pushing for legislation for child-care centers, government inspection of food, establishing the 8-hour work day, and establishing regulation of child labor that eventually banned child labor altogether. So essentially the women’s suffrage movement had prompted women to become more involved in social justice reforms. Incidents such as NAWSA’s 5,000 person suffragist protests led by Alice Paul during President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration resulted in her being jailed and supporting the infamous hunger strike, that led to an even controversial scenario where she was force fed food through her nose, that created obvious criticism of the incident by the Press. Eventually, through