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