Chapter 17-2: Critical Thinking # 5

Imagine you are a women during the Progressive Era. Explain how you might recruit other women to support education, housing reform, food and drug laws, the right to vote. Think About:

• the problems that each movement was trying to remedy
• how women benefited from each cause

If I were a women during the Progressive Era, I would probably do many different things to recruit women to support education, housing reform, food and drug laws, and the right to vote.

When it came to the support of education, I would state how every women deserved just as much of a right to get educated as men had. All because there was a difference in gender, does not mean that women were any less than men. With the option to be educated, women would be extremely intelligent and would therefore be able to set a better life for themselves and their families. Being a women in the Progressive Era, I would recruit women to support the right of education by proving to them how women are just as smart and deserve to set a good future. Also, I would try to get the women in the Progressive Era to participate in more reform activities. By inspiring the economy to help one another, the lives of women and children could be improved at the home.

While the topics of education and reform activities were more of a personal option for women, the food and drug laws needed to be changed. Being a women during this time, I would argue and point out how not making a change in the food and medicine that everyone was taking in, would cause health issues. The companies that made the food and medicine should have put everything that went into each item on a label. Whether a person chose to pick things that were very unhealthy was their issue, but for the best of each women and their husbands, and if any kids, laws to improve the food and medicine industries were in best interest.

Also, I would recruit women to vote. I would argue that every person has the right to make their own decisions. Just because you are a different from the typical man, does not mean that you get the worst of things. Being a human, and an adult, each and every women deserves the right to vote. The importance of equality would be stressed very much. Women had every right to vote because if men were involved in the government, women had the same amount of intelligence to make the right decisions and state their opinions by voting as well.