Women Equality
farm women: they worked in the house, but also helped plow, plant, and harvest.
city women: they were just house workers like cooking, cleaning, and keeping the house good looking.
- jobs in the city paid a lot better
- 25% of women worked in factories.
- most women worked in classrooms, offices, and stores.
- these women needed an education.
- graduating high school women started to outnumber the graduating men.
- women only made half the income men did.
Women three step strategy of suffrage
- Convince state legislatures to let women vote.
- pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment.
- tried to get constitutional amendment to let women the right to vote.
pure food and drug act..:
- this halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines which called for truth in labeling. this act did not ban harmful products....
Progressive Movement - is the control of the government to the people to restore economic opportunity and correct life in america.
- 4 steps to the progressive movement.
- protecting social welfare.
- promoting moral movement.
Taft becomes president.
- while taft was in office, he had a campaign for Tariff.
- Tariff is a tax on imported goods.
- he wanted to lower the rates on imported goods.
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