https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb en-us 2019-01-28 17:54:42 UTC 2019-02-04 15:34:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/325645217 A women right convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This lead to the women's suffrage to achieve reform with the right to vote. During the women suffrage many women before the civil war demanded the right to vote. The women's suffrage was limited to only four states had the right at the beginning of the progressive era. The women's suffrage movement achieved the nineteenth amendment that gave women the right to vote. The prohibition movement is called "the first mass movement in US history"  and prohibition was spurred by women getting the right to vote.]]> 2019-01-29 22:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/325645217 kstat0081 https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/325928750 Vanderbilt started working as a steamship captain for Thomas Gibbons in early 1817. Under Gibbons' tutelage Vanderbilt learned how to run a large complicated business, and Vanderbilt even assisted Gibbons in successfully fighting a New York steamship monopoly operated by the Livingston family. Vanderbilt's steamship businesses had prospered as commerce grew all around the New York area and the rest of the northeast, and he even began acquiring some smaller railroads in Boston and New England.]]> 2019-01-30 16:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/325928750 https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/327331249 Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United states. He was also the 25th vice president. He was nicknamed the trust buster because he broke up monopolies that were large companies. When he was president he wanted to build up the defense for the country, he turned the navy into a major international force on the sea]]> 2019-02-04 15:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/327331249 kelli6599 https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/327348615 Upton Sinclair became famous in 1906 after The Jungle book was wrote. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. The rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection.  The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act was passes because of this.]]> 2019-02-04 15:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tclos0557/ojzerh5hfjxb/wish/327348615