Muckraking.
interviews and news people would interview people and try to make them look bad, (famous people, people with money..ect..)
Taxation was a big problem back then because owners of large buisnesses would buy out small family buisnesses, like gas, clothes food, ect..
Monopolies were when people that owned buisness would try to buy out all the small buisnesses around them, therefore, they'd own every thing around them.
personal refrom groups were mostly lead by women, one of the largest groups fought against alcohol, and tabaco, basically anything that they thought would ruin society. They were also known as prohibonists.
Carrie nation was extremly against alcohol, alot of it was because her first husband was an alcoholic. what they would do was brake into bars, and preached about alcohol. while people preached, she went around and broke bottles.she was arested 30 times between 1900-1910. to pay her jail fines to get out she preached more about alcohol, and sold trinkits.
Food and drug regulation.
There was a meat inspection act in 1906, and that tightened regulations on meat processing.
Worker efficiancy, many owners began to think that workers would work faster if they had a motive, so they started the assembly line. it made it easier for the person to have a spsific job. some of the problems were the assembly line moved at a very fast pase, that would ruin the whole line. alot of workers got injured because they got tired from working 10 hour work days. so they switched it to 8 hour work days. Children had to work alot, so many of them didnt go to school.
in 1916 the keating owen act was started, it got passed, but it was to state that children under 18 couldnt work in hazardess work cinditions.
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