10/23/12

Teddy Roosevelt Nobel peace prize award:

four pictures, two sources, personal thoughts and opinions

how did he get it? what did he get it for?

Goals of the Era: Journalists and writers exposed the true conditions from working in factory. 

creating and fostering:

Musskrakers= journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of buisness and public life

henry ford reduce his workdays to h8 hours.

* he also payed people to work for 5$.

Cleaning up the government:

reforming local government and reforming mayors. 

Reform at the state level:

*reforming governors

*protecting the working children they had them go in and fix stuff cause they were small enough.

*women had ten hour work days

*tried to get men ten hour work days too.

*election of senators: in 1912 they gave the men a voice to choose the senators.

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