Doing some more presentation. Starting with Nichole, Cassie, and Becka.
Good thing I'm not flirting with disaster... ?
Mr. Bruns also went over the semester test and the semester test blog.
*Worker Safety/conditions
Teens and children were forced to work before 14. Mill workers strike in 1912. Progressive Movement: protecting social welfare. Muckrakers wrote about the children working in these bad conditions. Over the years the number of children workers grew.
*Reforming elections
William U'Ren convinced the state of Oregen to come up with a secret ballot. Known as Austrailian Ballot. Plan was to let citizens have a say in making laws. 20 states later joined. Primary system let voters to choose the candidates for office. 2/3 of the states had the same system by 1915.
*Segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
*Conservation
19th century people used up of most of natural resources. Wasted all their land. Set aside 148 million acres of forest land. 1905 Gilford Pinchot was set as head of the US forest service. Told Roosevelt they should conserve forests.
*Monopolies
*Taxation/Banking
Woodrow Wilson came up with the Underwood Act - reduced tax tariff rates for the first time since civil war. When they presented their case to the state, the president used the bully pulpit. Bully pulpit - get up infront of the people and tell them what they believe in and what they can do, trying to get people to listen, use presidency to get word out. Obama does this. Federal gov' needed to replace tariffs. Income tax made more money for the gov' more than the tariffs did. 16th amendment made it legal to have income tax.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
*Reforming Government '
1917 500 cities had some governent.
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