During the late 19th century to the early 20th, the Progressive era was dominated with political reforms and social activism in the United States. The Progressives wanted many positive changes to happen around the government and the social status among the United States. The United States gained lots of economic growth and cultural freedom among women. The Progressive achieved their goal because women achieved more rights and protection and the government was funded better with income taxes.
Women during the Progressive era were placed in settlement houses to be taught the ways of a middle class American if they were immigrants. In the settlement house, the women there became activist. Carrie Chapman Catt, a suffrage leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association who became an influential speaker had fought for the rights of women to vote. By the 1900s, more than half of the states allowed women to vote in the education board and the most women have full right to vote (Schwartz, 2018a). The suffrage movement of women was kept as a selective group but later became a larger movement and became a mass movement. …show more content…
During the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson has defeated Eugene Debs along with Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. In Wilson’s first term as president, he has the income taxes implemented. From the 16th amendment, “‘The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration’” (Schwartz, 2018c). Congress has put effort to tax every worker to help the economy from corruption. Not only did it benefit the government, it also benefited the farmers. The income taxes are a replacement of the tariffs as a source of revenue (Schwartz, 2018c). With the revenue, the government economically would become stronger and partake bigger
Women during the Progressive era were placed in settlement houses to be taught the ways of a middle class American if they were immigrants. In the settlement house, the women there became activist. Carrie Chapman Catt, a suffrage leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association who became an influential speaker had fought for the rights of women to vote. By the 1900s, more than half of the states allowed women to vote in the education board and the most women have full right to vote (Schwartz, 2018a). The suffrage movement of women was kept as a selective group but later became a larger movement and became a mass movement. …show more content…
During the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson has defeated Eugene Debs along with Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. In Wilson’s first term as president, he has the income taxes implemented. From the 16th amendment, “‘The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration’” (Schwartz, 2018c). Congress has put effort to tax every worker to help the economy from corruption. Not only did it benefit the government, it also benefited the farmers. The income taxes are a replacement of the tariffs as a source of revenue (Schwartz, 2018c). With the revenue, the government economically would become stronger and partake bigger