today we went over how were being graded for the quarter grades and how are daily blogs should be. and more presentraions
- Work/Saftey Conditions
there amount of child workers grew,which caused reformers to protect workers and child labor
adult wages were low so they had there childeren work as well
- Reforming Elections
Only ceratin people were aloud to vote and this let voters remove public officals from the elected positions and haveing a re-election
- Segeragtion
seperated blacks and whites
they also made people with other races then white just used them as slaves or some kind of servents
the proggresives didnt do anything to help much with segragation.
- Food and drugs
The pure \food and drugs act was passed to keep food healthy and kids and people woundlnt get sick and they made companies labels be honest onthem just incase there were drugs in them
Conservation
- Monopolies
the clayton trust act said you couldnt make monopolies but many buisesses vvoileted that law.
monopolies were made illigal in the 1890's by the sherman anti trust act
- Taxation and banking
larger incomes were charged with more income tax, and goverment made a lot of money out of this
wilson passed a law that every district would have a fedral bank to give the common people loans.
- Aid organizations
many poeple set up work relief for the poor and when there was a flood theses shelters would help re build schools and parks, ect. They also helped reform goverment and rebuild cities
- Muckrakers
they were peolpe that exposed other people that wrote about businesses that monopolized othere buisnesses and how corrupt other goverment was. There were basically investigators. They also exposed also the meat factories and how unsanitery is was and how they could have dieseases.
- Efficiency in the workplace
there were scientific studies on how fast things were being done, to prevent fitigue workers an eight hour day wasa common change. Henry ford paid five dollar days and 8 hour work days. This attracted thousands of workers which helped a lot.
- Women Social cganges
In the 14th and 15th amendments because they could not vote. In 1875supreme court said women were citizens but did not grant them the right to vote. Women fought for 41 years.
Reforming Goverment
Political bosses were people that bought there way or bribed people to vote for them in return to get a job. A lot of goverments reformed child labor laws and working hours.
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