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Susan B. Anthony (Women suffrage)
was convinced by her work for temperance that women needed the vote if they were to influence public affairs. She was introduced by Amelia Bloomer to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the leaders of the women's rights movement, in 1851, and attended her first women's rights convention in Syracuse in 1852. -
Social Gospel Movement
a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. -
W.E.B DuBois (NAACP)
became director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909. The legal arm of the NAACP led the campaign to end Jim Crow segregation altogether, but its first target would be inequality in education. -
Child Labor Act
Sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen.
