The Expansion Of Emma's Progressive Movement

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Paul E. Johnson’s 2004 book Sam Patch: The Famous Jumper uses a mill worker’s personal background to relay a series of socio-economic changes that occurred during the 1800’s. The Industrial Revolution, for many, was the beginning of something new. Due to the development and proliferation of technology, the economic gain from the Industrial Revolution was formidable. Unfortunately, the working class was forced to endure hazardous working conditions. For Sam Patch— a nineteenth century daredevil exhibitionist with nothing to his name— leaping from tall cliffs was a form of visual oppression designed to challenge the authority of well-respected political leaders of the upper class. The ideology that a simple man rose to fame by performing acts that, by many, was considered foolish, contradicted the beliefs of the upper class. This publication highlights several broad changes that occurred during this time period. Society’s perception of fame changed dramatically. Sam Patch went from being a simple mill worker to being a celebrity overnight. This work also highlights issues regarding domestic textile industries, including poor working conditions and child labor. Sam Patch began working at the age of seven; that was not entirely uncommon during this time period. Children were subjected to dust-filled rooms that were either “hot in the summer or cold in the winter.” Furthermore, this book also emphathizes the growing hostility between the Whig Party and the Jacksonian Party.

On July 22nd 1905, Florence Kelley-a social worker-was speaking at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in hopes of gaining support for restriction on child labor and better conditions for working women. In the angry and passionate speech, Florence Kelley utilizes rhetorical appeals, repetition, and rhetorical questions in order to assert the problems with child labor to the adults and officials of America.

In Florence Kelley’s speech delivered to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1905, the author employs empathetic repetition, strong facts, and piteous diction to inspire as many people as possible to work against child labor.

Florence Kelley was a social worker who fought for child labor and working conditions for women. On July 22, 1905 she delivered a speech to the National American Suffrage Association to address her opposing argument against children working. She conveys her message through rhetorical strategies such as emotional appeals, logical appeals, and by creating an ethos. Ms. Kelley is strategical with her words and imagery to make her audience feel a certain way about the subject. She says, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working… skills and ribbons for us to buy.”

The book Emma Goldman: American Individualist remembers and retells the honest story of a related to fighting authority or causing huge, important changes’ through life, love, and supporting what you have faith in. Emma devoted her life to the production of a fundamentally social order. Also, she grasped anarchism for its vision which offered: freedom, amicability, and social equity. She had a profound responsibility regarding outright flexibility and that drove her to uphold a scope of disputable causes. Goldman was a radical scholar. Forty years on she is more than meaningful, she is notable for her work. Emma Goldman was known for her women’s movement, labor movement and for the No Commission league to protest world war one’s drafts.

The Progressive Era was full of people wanting to change their surroundings and laws in

The Progressive Era was a very hard time for the hard-working women in America at the time, and it was at this point in history that women began working in factories.

Women’s history in the United States has always been represented as a struggle for rights. Wealth and status were tied to either their fathers or husbands. In the early 1900s, women were afforded the traditional roles of society. The majority of women worked in the home. If they were of the 18% young or poor women, they also worked in factories as laborers, manufacturing items for the booming industrial revolution (U.S. Department of Labor, 1980). During this time period the workplace was not in compliance with current safety standards. There was no minimum wage yet, work conditions were horrible and they worked long hours, “In 1900, the average workweek in manufacturing was 53 hours,” (Fisk, 2003). Women took “pink

Florence Kelley is a social worker and reformer who fights for child labor laws and better working conditions for women. At the National Assembly Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, Kelley recites a speech about the issue of child labor laws. She uses rhetorical strategies such as repetition of the many negative aspects of child labor through specific examples, criticism of state policies, and emotional appeal. A combination of figures, logic, evidence, and emotional appeal will help convince her audience that child labor is a problem.

The Progressive Era, from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century (1898-1919), was a time when women were learning and adjusting to the differences in America. Women had different goals they wanted to achieve. Women from different classes had different targets that they strived for. Some women wanted to be equals with all people and have the rights that they deserved to have. Others just tried to make life better and happier for themselves and their family.

Stretching from the 1900s to 1920s, the Progressive Era was characterized by a profusion of public activism. Change was becoming something that shouldn’t be left aside. Many advocates for change managed to make some sort of impact; they established kindergartens, settlement houses, public health associations, and missions to "heathens" at home and abroad. These Progressives fought to expand the meaning of citizenship and to establish institutions to educate and uplift the less fortunate (The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History). But one may ask “Were these changes as big of a deal as they were thought to be? Can these so called impacts be seen in the 21rst century?” Since the end of the progressive era all the changes all the reformations and rights workers gained can still be seen and enjoyed.

Throughout America's history, there have been numerous social and political movements that have had a profound and lasting impact on American culture. Movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Suffrage Movement have influenced and shaped American ideals and beliefs. These movements were typically driven by a cause. From the 1890s to the 1920s, a period of social and political reform flourished in America. This was driven by the desire to eliminate corruption in the government. People wanted to have a positive impact on society and they wanted to speak up for what they believed in. This era was a pivotal turning point in the history of the United States. This era was known as the Progressive Era.

From the 1880’s to the 1920’s, the Progressive Era was a period in American history where women’s suffrage gained the most momentum. Due to justified Progressive Era reforms and the creation of various organizations during this time, women were able to successfully protect people who were, for example, immigrants, poor, and African Americans belittled by the norms of society. With the full participation of American women, they exercised their full rights as citizens to create public institutions and shape public policy. Redefining the social structure, these middle-class women received support from other women which essentially led to changes of the rights of and treatment of American women in society. Thwarted by a male-dominated society, pleas for better treatment and equal rights made by women in the forms of protests, conventions, parades, and speeches, were often seen as foolish and meaningless. However, women’s unrelenting efforts combined with the atmosphere of reform resulted in positive outcomes such as the right to vote, the creation of new educational opportunities, and the introduction of better working conditions for women, which drastically impacted the way women apply themselves in society today.

In 1905, in the United States, some children as young as six years old are working in factories and women aren’t allowed to vote. Florence Kelley is a fiery and inspiring child labor activist and also a suffragette. On July 22, 1905, in Philadelphia, she gives a speech to the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to try to rally them to assist her in her main cause which is fixing the child labor system. In her speech where she doesn’t hold back, Kelley lets the audience know why the child labor system is atrocious and why they should get involved. She also tells them the steps that they should take to try to right these wrongs, in convincing their husbands to vote for child labor