Title: The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
AN EVOLVING SOCIETY
The Birth of the NAACP
Temperance and Prohibition
The Settlement House Movement
RELIGION IN AMERICA
Church Membership at the Turn of the Century
ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION
A FASHIONABLE ERA
The Gibson Girl
The Price of Fashion—Prices at the Pegues, Wright Department Store, Junction City, Kansas; 1909
LADIES' WEAR:
MEN'S WEAR:
A Mail-Order House
ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN

Content: A widely held belief supporting this exclusion was that women were morally superior to men. Early feminists tried to debunk this idea by announcing that they were concerned not only about "family issues" within the home, but also with the larger social ills. Increasingly, women joined together to form their own labor organizations and activist groups, such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the National Congress of Mothers, and the National Association of Colored Women. They strove to improve social welfare programs, join trade unions, and earn suffrage, or the right to vote. In 1909, a massive strike by members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) demonstrated that working-class and immigrant women could unite to improve conditions in the workplace. However, in the struggle for suffrage, female activists were not as successful. By 1913, only eight sparsely populated western states had given women the right to vote. Children were another social group who faced many challenges during the decade. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were marked by the exploitation of millions of children who received little or no formal education because they needed to work to help support their families. It was commonplace to see young boys and girls toiling in coalmines, textile mills, factories, sweatshops, and on farms throughout the United States.