Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

Historical Developments in Unit 9.5 - Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

• Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion.

• In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion.

• Movements throughout the world protested the inequality of the environment and economic consequences of global integration.