Question

You will create your own interest group to address one of the social needs of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Use your knowledge and your 21st-century skills to perform the following:
A.) Choose an issue relevant to the late 1800s or early 1900s to address.
B.) Prepare a one-paragraph summary of the issue.
C.) Choose a name for your group.
D.) Thinking as a person living during this time period, draw up a list of demands (about five or six) and discuss which are the most important and which you are willing to limit through compromise.
E.) Choose meeting times and places appropriate to the people who would be involved.

Answer 1

So the topic that i would give is child labor reform.The way young, innocent, precious children are ruthlessly ‘worked to death’ should be inhumane! Children SHOULD NOT be demanded to work! They are too young to be engaging in such long, arduous, labor all day long in such terrible, unsanitary, unhealthy, and often hazardous conditions.

Answer 2

A. Female suffrage

B.

Currently, the United States does not allow women to vote. I believe that this goes against the natural rights of self-determination of women. Even though women do not often work, they still contribute to society in a domestic capacity. Moreover, there are many female philosophers, painters, artists and scholars that demonstrate women are as capable as men. If the country does not want to be a tyranny, and wants to promote equality, it will give women the right to vote.

C. Female Suffrage NOW!

D. Demands:

-Allowing women to vote in all elections.

-Allowing women to be candidates in all elections.

- Allowing women to be educated in politics.

We would compromise by not obtaining full voting rights, but a limited version for two election cycles, until we have proven that we can exercise our right responsibly.

E. The meeting time will be in the evening, once women have finished their duties as wives and mothers. The place will be the local library, so that women do not have to go too far on their own.