For the most part the early transportation systems were focused in the larger urban areas. This began to change in the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940, the percent of the population in urban areas rose nearly 17 percent. Before WWII, however, car ownership was confined to the relatively wealthy, and the highway system was very underdeveloped. Air travel was essentially non-existent.
The first organization was the National American Woman Suffrage Association. It was under the leadership of Carrie Chapman. The NAWSA convinced President Wilson and the Congress to pass woman suffrage Constitutional Amendment. The second organization was the National Woman’s Party. It was under the leadership of Alice Paul.
Even before the creation of a specific national suffrage movement, certain rights had already been gained by women. Women could stand as members of Boards of Poor Law Guardians and also on local School Boards under the (Forster) Education Act of 1870. This gave women a chance to prove their ability in areas of political decision making – involving a female presence in the ‘public sphere’ for the first time - diminishing the anti arguments that women were not intellectually fit to do so. Moreover, the Municipal Franchise Act of 1869 was extended female rate payers, initiating a female presence in the democratic process. Women were able, furthermore, to stand as candidates in local elections by 1888, enabling women to challenge opposition views that had always denied them their rights, and the increasing roles of women in society indicated greater social acceptance.
Today each morning Americans in the country start up their vehicles and drive miles and miles to their jobs in the city. They endure traffic, and waste time driving just so that they can live in neighborhoods that have hundreds of homes that all look alike, or for home that is surrounded by farmland. Urban sprawl didn’t become a big problem or talked about issue until the late 1930’s. This was when personal transportation hit a high. John S. Adams created a four-stage model of how transportation affected urban sprawl.
1 Women’s lives after the two world wars changed, but there is some debate as to how much it changed. Their lives changed politically, with women gaining the vote, they changed in terms of employment, as they were now permitted to join certain professions and they also changed socially as a better way of living was set out for them. It is argued that women were given greater opportunities after the wars due to their exceptional participation on the home front. However, many historians believe that this change in women’s lives was simply due to the changing times and the progression in society. The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started.
What was the real purpose of Emily Davison’s actions at the 1913 derby? Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette. The suffragettes where a group of women who fought for women’s rights. They wanted women to be able to vote and be treated as equals to men. Before the suffragettes there was a group of women who were called the suffragists.
Business Analysis III During the early years, Sears sold only watches and other jewelry. However, its founders, R. W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck, quickly developed the company according to the mail-order retail model pioneered by Montgomery Ward, which used newly constructed railroad networks to ship a variety of goods at low cost to small towns and rural areas. Offering a steadily increasing variety of items in its annual catalogs, Sears provided cash-strapped Americans with an alternative to relatively expensive general stores and dry-goods merchants during the economic depression of the 1890's, outstripping the sales volume of other mail-order houses. By the early twentieth century, the company offered thousands of items, ranging from the most modest of household goods to automobiles and homes. After assuming a dominant position among mail-order retailers serving rural markets, Sears began making headway into urban retail markets, opening its first department store in Chicago in 1925.
However, most modern Americans have cut out the middleman and choose to get their milk from a local supermarket. Although the disappearance of the milkman has its advantages, it has also generated a few negative side effects on the economy and the environment. Government regulations combined with technological advances such as
“The Saint-Simonians were the earliest and most popular of these utopian socialist feminists” (Moses, 1982: 241). In this essay I will discuss how the “woman question” emerged through the ideology of the Saint-Simonians and whether their aims and actions were to benefit women, as they claimed, or rather to satisfy the ego of their leader, Prosper Enfantin. I will also consider what measures the women involved in this movement took to ensure their own emancipation and to what extent this was due to their involvement in the Saint-Simonian movement. By the late 1820s interest in women’s issues had become part of the all-absorbing “social question” (Pilbeam, 2000: 76). Among the feminist movements which emerged during the early nineteenth century, two of the most noteworthy are Fourier and the Saint-Simonians, in fact, Fourier has been credited with having originated the word “féministe” (Goldstein, 1982: 92).
It was in the early 1800s when women began to question various issues such as their roles in society and their rights as a woman, or their lack of rights and unjust inequality in comparison to males. Interestingly though in 1792Marry Wollstonecraft, who was a significant driving force in the women’s right movement, wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). In her book she argued that women were rational beings who should be able to be educated, earn their own livings, and develop their characters “regardless of the distinction of sex” (pg 24 Alison M Parker). Then in 1820 the activist Frances Wright went on to further publicize her work. At the time Frances Wright was best known for being a early proponent of the notion that marriage was a form of cohesive bondage for women, who there thereby denied the right to inheritances, wages, and joint guardianship of their children.