Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
By the early 1900s, many Americans had left rural areas and moved to cities
to take jobs in factories and offices. Although workers often lived in miserable
conditions, city life attracted many newcomers because of an alluring consumer
culture and new freedoms for young adults. Activist citizens started reform
movements that worked for public education, labor rights, women's rights, the
safety of the nation's food supply, and the conservation of natural resources—even though some of these movements often conflicted each other.
A growing industrial labor market drew people to cities from elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad. Manufacturing and advertising created a new consumerism, and young people in particular more freedom by weakening the controls over personal behavior previously exercised by families and small communities. More
The increasing damage created by a burgeoning commercial and industrial economy had many convinced that only government regulations could protect the public. More
Progressive era reforms often worked at odds to each other, resulting in both more democratic and anti-democratic social and political structures. More
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