industrial revolution
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- equality for women
- "we as women should be able to vote if a man can do it why cant we"
- One of the reforms included women's rights this resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote.
- another reform was the child labor movement. Most companies would take advantages of the children due to their small stature they could get thing done that most adults couldn't.
- The National Child Labor Committee's work to end child labor was combined with efforts to provide free, compulsory education for all children, and culminated in the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, which set federal standards for child labor.
- we shall fight until we win
- workers began to fight for safer conditions, better hours, and increased wages.
- "yea I wish we were treated the same way about our problems"
- the reform movement spread because Many groups, such as people who disliked slaver and women, saw the new laws being passed for the poor working in factories and wished to be treated the same way. Many people saw slavery as an economic threat as well.
- "did you see the new laws being passed"
- It was easy for factory owners to replace one employee who complained, but much more difficult to replace all their employees if they went on strike together.
- "when you give us what we want then we'll come back to work
- The technological changes during the IR included the use of new basic materials, chiefly iron and steel, and the use of new energy sources, including both fuels and motive power, such as coal, the steam engine, electricity, petroleum, and the internal-combustion engine,
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