-progressives didnt do anything to help segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
-Pure Food and Drugs Act: required labels
-Meat Inspection Act
*Conservation
-loggers
-farmers wanted to conserve land so they could keep it for harvesting and cattle
-ranchers
-miners
-cities
-National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act): money from sale of public lands funded irrigation projects
*Monopolies
-When larger companies took over the littler companies that sold the same thing as they did
-monopolies were made illegal by Sherman Antitrust Act
-Clayton Antitrust Act: prohibit corporations from acquiring stock from another if it would create a monopoly
-made labor unions legal
-Federal Trade Commision Act: given the power to require periodic reports from corporations and put an end to a number of unfair business practices
*Taxation/Banking
-federal income tax: people with higher income pay higher taxes
-income tax partially replaced both the tariff revenues of the fedral goverment (13 ammendment)
-split country into 12 regions all with their own head bank
-Underwood Act: help reduce tariffs for the first time since the Civil War
*Aid Organizations
-set up to help poor and when natural disasters hit
*Muckrakers
-investigators trying to expose corrupt corporations or government officials
*Efficiency in the workplace
-assembly line
-the had scietificc managment to see how fast tasks could be done
*Women social changes
-women were racist because blacks were allowed to vote but not them
-they tried for voting and to to get more jobs for women that really weren'tt aloud because men didnt think they could do.
*Reforming Government
-Congress provided other rights to tax income and marketing, selling and transporting alcohol.
-A lot of reforming goverment was stopping the corruption that was going on.
****16 ammendment started the income tax
****17 ammendment electing of senators by the citizens
****18 ammenment was Proabition
****19 ammendment was womens right to vote
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