11/9/09

1.What did the progessives do to make the work place safer?protective earmufs, railings, worker's compensation- If you get injured on the job, they pay you for your recovery. OSHA.2.What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?Keating- owen act. prohibited states from trading child manufactured products. Ended Child labor in every state by 1860.3.What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about. What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?The banning of something. People were getting drunk alot and others thought that was morally wrong. They wanted to ended public drunkeness, not necessarily all drinking. They voted in GOngress to add and 18th amendment stating it was illegal to make, buy, transport, and distrubute alcohol. Bolosted act madeit illegal to haved alochol in possession at all.
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