Today in class we will continue presentations.
Aid Organizations- Some organizations wanted to help raise money for the poor. Many poor people had bad jobs, they were dangerous and did not pay well. Upper class didn't want to help or share. Middle class ran settlement houses. Jane Addams was very influential, as a role model for others who wanted to help.
Taxation and Banking- THe Sixteenth Amendment - "The Congress shall have power to lay a nd collect taxes on incomes, form whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration" Meant income taxation was legal. The Revenue act of 1913 put a 1% tax on net personal incomes that were about 3000 dollars with a 6 percent surtax on incomes more than 500000.
First bank was every built in 1791.
Muckrakers- investigative journalists. Clayton AntiTrust Act stopped bigger companies from getting the stocks of the smaller businesses, stopping monopolies from forming. Made to strengthen the Sherman act.
Worker Safety and Conditions- In 1904 the National Child Labor Committee was formed, and it sent out child labor inspectors which took note on children working in dangerous conditions.
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