Transforming Towards Modernity Flashcards
What was Lewis Hines contribution to the child labor reform movement?
Worked with a group of reformers in the National Child Labor Committee to spread awareness
Why did the formal child labor increase, especially in Europe and the United States during this era?
Industry required more and more labor to sustain production.
What was the moral objection to child labor?
Children were in danger of being harmed.
How and why did labor unions argue against child labor?
Labor unions protested and argued that children were too innocent to work.
Once child labor was outlawed what did children usually end up doing?
Children went to school or did service work.
How did reforms in child labor impact areas in colonized Asia and Latin America?
Working children were circulated and were sent to families that needed extra labor.
What networks and communication technologies did reformers use to spread information about child labor conditions?
Posters, do interviews about it. The upper classes were able to invest in protecting and educating their children.
What is suffrage?
The right to vote in elections.
What kind of reform movement helped to stimulate the development of a women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand, and how?
The temperance movement helped launch the women’s suffrage movement.
Why did a government of men in the UK give women over 21 the right to vote in 1929?
Because of the large amount of protests and petitions.
Why was a woman/s suffrage slow to be granted in India (which was also ruled by the UK)?
The alliance between Britain colonial administrators and male Indian officials kept women from voting until India achieved independence.
What groups of women were excluded from voting in North America before the 1960s?
Indigenous women were excluded by law and African American women were denied voting rights due to poll taxes and other restrictions.
What argument did women in Latin America use to get suffrage?
Being able to vote would improve family life and strengthen the government.
What important political change made universal women’s suffrage possible in most of Africa?
Decolonization - achieving independence – meant voting rights for both men and women.
