Elimination of Child Labor Equality in Pay for Women Today Terms People of the Progressive Era Driving Question: What social issues cause people to ask for change?
100
14 years old
What age did you have to be to work after child labor laws were passed?
100
Men
Which gender earns more money each year?
100
A group of journalists that wrote about the nation’s problems
What was a muckraker?
100
a muckraker who wrote about and took photos of issues in the U.S.
Who was Jacob Riis?
100
For the most part, yes. Child labor laws were passed and children went to school.
Did the government succeed in solving elimination of child labor?
200
Raise wages and improve working conditions
Labor unions organized to do what?
200
Women
Which gender works longer hours and later nights?
200
the growth of cities
What is urbanization?
200
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft
Who were the progressive era presidents?
200
Employers taking into account the work they do, Congress passing laws to raise women's' wages
What are some potential solutions to solving inequality in pay for women?
300
They passed laws restricting the type of work children could do
What did progressive politicians do to help children?
300
Black women got paid even less than white women.
What did segregation have to do with equality in pay?
300
The author of The Jungle that talked about the disgusting process in which meat is produced
Who was Upton Sinclair?
300
creating settlement homes in Chicago
What is Jane Addams known for?
300
They both got paid much lower wages
What is the main similarity in elimination of child labor and equality in pay for women?
400
Their families needed money and employers didn't have to pay children as much as adults
What are two reasons children worked?
400
Poverty levels would be cut in half in the United States
What would happen to poverty if women were paid equally?
400
the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol
What is prohibition?
400
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who was the president of NAWSA?
400
Women's suffrage, temperance movement, women's rights today
What other social issues involved unequal pay or issues regarding women?
500
Farms, coal mines, and textile mills
Where did most children work?
500
Employers don't care about the level of qualification
What is the reason for the gender wage gap?
500
Booker T. Washington
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
500
Jeanette Rankin
Who did Elizabeth help elect to Congress?
500
1938
What year were child labor laws passed?






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