The United States in the early 1900s is a country flooded with problems and issues threatening the prosperity of the country. Some of these issues include deforestation, the fight for women’s rights, the continuation of child labor, and the unsanitary findings found within the meatpacking industry. Earlier this year, my Aunt Bessie generously awarded me one million dollars to spend on three different progressive reform groups of my choice. After deep thought and careful consideration, I have decided to divide the money between three progressive reform groups: women’s suffrage, the fight against child labor, and food safety. Furthermore, women’s suffrage is an important movement that deserves a generous donation towards their cause.
I decided that the cause of women’s suffrage and women’s rights will receive the $600,000 contribution. …show more content…
Women are being deprived of a crucial right granted to all citizens of the United States, the right to vote. Why should women be deprived of the right to vote if they are citizens? Jane Addams, a women’s suffragist, once said that women need the right of suffrage to preserve America along with its belief and value system. According to Adams in Document C, If women want to fulfill their traditional responsibility to their children and country, they should be granted the coveted right to vote in order to “preserve the home.” This statement by Addams shows that women need the right of suffrage to vote for ideas that will preserve America and its values. For example, women, if granted the right to vote, could vote for government officials that will fight to end child labor and support the right to clean food, or vote to end child labor and the contamination of food directly. In addition, the right for women to vote is important to America as a whole because the woman vote will bring unity since all genders and races will have been granted suffrage rights after their twenty- first birthday. The image in Document C portrays women peacefully protesting for their rights. This shows that women are not worthy of suffrage because they are proving that they peacefully protesting rather than starting massive riots. Overall, the $600,000 contribution will enable women to vote for what matters most, and will grant unity where it never was. Likewise, the struggle against child labor is also worthy of a generous contribution. Next, I have dedicated the $300,000 donation to the fight towards ending child labor. Child labor is a practice that puts the lives of young boys at risk. After all, children are our future, therefore, their lives should not be put in jeopardy. According to a National Child Labor Committee Report in 1911, two breaker boys, young mine workers who separate coal from slate rock, were either injured or killed after they “fell or were carried by the coal down into the car below. One was badly burned and the other was smothered to death.” (Doc B) Clearly, the lives of children should be preserved instead of being taken away. To continue, the photos that were taken by Lewis Pine of the breaker boys in the mine show them working in cramped conditions and breathing
I decided that the cause of women’s suffrage and women’s rights will receive the $600,000 contribution. …show more content…
Women are being deprived of a crucial right granted to all citizens of the United States, the right to vote. Why should women be deprived of the right to vote if they are citizens? Jane Addams, a women’s suffragist, once said that women need the right of suffrage to preserve America along with its belief and value system. According to Adams in Document C, If women want to fulfill their traditional responsibility to their children and country, they should be granted the coveted right to vote in order to “preserve the home.” This statement by Addams shows that women need the right of suffrage to vote for ideas that will preserve America and its values. For example, women, if granted the right to vote, could vote for government officials that will fight to end child labor and support the right to clean food, or vote to end child labor and the contamination of food directly. In addition, the right for women to vote is important to America as a whole because the woman vote will bring unity since all genders and races will have been granted suffrage rights after their twenty- first birthday. The image in Document C portrays women peacefully protesting for their rights. This shows that women are not worthy of suffrage because they are proving that they peacefully protesting rather than starting massive riots. Overall, the $600,000 contribution will enable women to vote for what matters most, and will grant unity where it never was. Likewise, the struggle against child labor is also worthy of a generous contribution. Next, I have dedicated the $300,000 donation to the fight towards ending child labor. Child labor is a practice that puts the lives of young boys at risk. After all, children are our future, therefore, their lives should not be put in jeopardy. According to a National Child Labor Committee Report in 1911, two breaker boys, young mine workers who separate coal from slate rock, were either injured or killed after they “fell or were carried by the coal down into the car below. One was badly burned and the other was smothered to death.” (Doc B) Clearly, the lives of children should be preserved instead of being taken away. To continue, the photos that were taken by Lewis Pine of the breaker boys in the mine show them working in cramped conditions and breathing