WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Margaret Sanger
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Jane Addams
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Susan B. Anthony
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many educated women of the age felt that many of society’s greatest disorders could be traced to alcohol. According to their view, alcohol led to increased domestic violence and neglect. It decreased the income families could spend on necessities and promoted prostitution and adultery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Women of the Gilded Age were breaking away from the norms that restricted their mothers’ to the Cult of Domesticity. Many were entering into higher education, working, some were campaigning for the right to vote, and many were building the roots of the Progressive Era and modern day social services.
Detailed explanation-3: -Women comprised 14 percent of the total work force in 1870 and 16 percent in 1890. At the same time, the percentage of all women who worked outside the home steadily increased throughout the Gilded Age: 15 percent in 1870, 16 percent in 1880, 19 percent in 1890, and 21 percent in 1900.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most cities were unprepared for rapid population growth. Housing was limited, and tenements and slums sprung up nationwide. Heating, lighting, sanitation and medical care were poor or nonexistent, and millions died from preventable disease. Many immigrants were unskilled and willing to work long hours for little pay.