Women's Suffrage Movement During The Progressive Era

Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, and Alice Paul were the major leaders of the women's suffrage movement during the Progressive Era. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton resigned as president of the National American Women SuffrageAssociation (NAWSA) in 1900, Carrie Chapman Catt and a new generation of women replaced her. National surf at surface age organization was established in 1969 went to competitive organizations were found one leg by a shoe and B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the other by Lucy Stone immediately after the Civil War in Sudan B Anthony a strong and outspoken advocate of women's rights demanded that the 14th Amendment included a guarantee of the vote for women as well as for African-American males and night at 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Cady standing found the national women's surface age sociation assassination.

Environments a waveform background during 1890 through 1920 also known as the progressive era there were many reforms and introduced and passed among these reforms for health reforms in environmental and reforms during this time. Period there were Health regulations at factories also housing areas were not sanitary with people bunched up living together.Here was great interest during the Progressive Era (1900-1917) an investigation and amelioration of hazardous working conditions. President Theodore Roosevelt had championed the conservation movement and broadened its scope to include the saving of human life. It was but a short step from there to protecting the lives and limbs of industrial workers. Through settlement houses and other urban social work, reformers aided workers and their families and entreated employers to eliminate dangerous working conditions and other abuses.

Muckraking journalists and others gave nationwide publicity to accidents and unsafe conditions.113From 1902 to 1907 The Factory Inspector, an unofficial journal of the Inter¬national Association of Factory Inspectors, regularly published accounts gathered by state labor bureaus of industrial accidents. The steel industry produced some of the most violent accidents that this journal reported. At a steel mill in Butler, Pennsylvania, a heavy pot of hot metal spilled molten steel onto wet sand, causing a huge explosion which destroyed part of the plant. Streams of hot metal poured down on the workmen, engulfing and literally cooking some of them. Four men died and 30 more were injured.

The explosion shook buildings in the town and caused panic among the populace. Thousands turned out to watch the huge fire that ensued.114 Two employees at a steel plant in Youngstown, Ohio were sent to clean out the dust underneath the blast furnaces. Suddenly there was a slippage of tons of molten fuel and ore inside the furnace, causing large amounts of very hot dust to fall on them. One of the men was completely buried in it and died in great agony. The other escaped with severe burns.