*Reforming elections-
*Segregation after slavery was abolished threee constitustional amenments were passed to grant newly freed slaves. blacks were still segreatd by whitees by law private action in transprtation publuic accomodations recreational facilities prisons armed forced. school both north and south. 1896 supreme court approved legal separation of the races by its ruling in plessy v. ferguson. progressived did nothing to help segregation.
*Regulating food & drugs false advertising for products. no labels.food contained drugs. people became sddicted. drugs could be dispensed anywhere. act. saying that products cant sell with false advertising. and that there need to stop being piosonout if they were in the first place. shut down all operations of poisonous products. companies change their recipe things. coca cola took cocaine out of recipe. the pure food and drug act.
*Conservation 1887 40 million acres are set aside for national forest reserve, roosevelt condemned that the worlds natural resources are not replaceable. roosevelt swe aside 1.5 milllion acres of water power sights abd set aside 80 million acres of land that environmental people woul explore. also established more then 50 wildlife sancaturatied naational parks. national reclamatin act of 1902 - new land act.
*Monopolies- where a company buys out others of the same servicve. also where they make it impossible to use a different company., they use them to gain power over a certain time. ex. oil companies and the internet. roosevelt elected for pregressives party. he didnt care about them for them. they were inevitable in and econony. he wanted to regulate monoplies. thought the oil company was a monopoly but sipreme coury ruled it wasnt. in 1909 nearly one third of the oil was manufactured by one company vecause of trusts or bonds.
*Taxation/Banking- meat inspection act. it required the meat packing act. it haulted the sale of contaminated food and medicine and called for truth labeling. the act did not can the products out right. but the labels had to give accurate information. as the nimber of chiled workers rose dramaticallt reformers worked to jprotect workers and to end child labor. the act prohibeted the coross state line if it was made with chile labor. two years after the act was passed the supreme court declared that it was unconstitutonal due to the stated rights the 16th amendment legalized a graduated federal income tax. grduated income tax the more you make the more they take out. by 1917 the government was getting more monet on income tax than it had ever gotten form high tariffs, today income tax are the main sources of money to the government.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor immigrants were coming over and werent finding jobs alot pof the middle class woment said that they really needed to help them out. the social gospel movemnt- presched salvation through the service to the poor. made working conditions better. many poor people had awful jobs,. dangerous unsanitary. house settlemnts. community centers in slum neighborhoods that provide assistance to immigrants and gthe poor. ran by maily middle cladd people. provided language culture and cocial sercive cladded benefited the poor but maily immigrants. jane addams one of the nost unfluential members of the movement, 1890 jane potter berrett locust street social settlement first afican american settlemnt house. hamton virginai . 400settle ment houses were used across the nation by 1910
*Muckrakers people who wrote for popular magazines about the injustices of the governemnt mainly focused on exposing cime and corrupting. focused on monoply of standard oil cattile meat packing patent medicines child labor relegation of public mucktaking led to public oucry and investigations legislation was enacted to adress the issues the writers identified.ida tarbell. she exposed the oil company to the public through her paper or magazine,
*Efficiency in the workplace assembly line was invented. created more manageable work for women and children. got work done in a more timly manner. some people couldnt handle it because it moved to quickly. poeple discovered seperating big jobs into smaller jobs was more efficien. had the physically comptent do alot of the hard labor. mentally competent do the mental labor. nearly doubled production in many factories,. came up with shifts.
*Women social changes better payin opportunities became available in towns. women had new options for finding jobs mens labor unions excluded them from membershit. turn of century- 1 out of 5 women had a job. 25 percent of women worked in manufacturing garment trade claimed half of all women workers recieved half or less amound of pay some women did domestic work like cleaning for other families. after 2 million some african american women were freed, poverty pushed nearly halod of them into the work force. worked on farms and as domistic workers. women pushed for reform due to dangerours working conditions low wages and really long hours. in 1911 146 women died from a fre. middle and upper class women entered pucli. many women started attending colleges. vassat college accepted it firtst femail student in 1865. 19th centery marrage wasnt a womens only choece. almost half of all college educated never married. retained independence women became angured becaus they were alowd to veote or run office.
*Reforming Government
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