1. What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?Before the laws came out, the workplace was very dangerous. Because of the heavy machinery, the workers often got injured and could even possibly lose limbs. Back then, the workers were not covered for injuries in the workplace, so basically they were just fired because they were now useless. During the progressive era, the workers were given wokers compensation which just kinda covered them. They were also given earmuffs and stuff to protect them. Today there are the child labor laws, and there are laws against the tools that children can use. OSHA- started in 1970, gov't organization that goes around checking out businesses and can actually shut them down if they find them to be unsafe. -Zach Harris2. What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?Before child labor was very common, this is including young children, from ages five to nine even. Bosses thought that children were ideal workers because of their small agile fingers and they were willing to work for lower wages. Immigrants often sent their young children to work so they could have money in the poor times. Children were very likely to have accidents in results of fatigue. Child labor lowered wages for all workers. In 1916, the Keating-Owen act was passed that prohibited the transportation of child-made goods across the state line. This was declared unconstitutional two years later because it interfeered with the state's rights. By the 1920's, most states had banned child labor. Today there are still a lot of strict laws with child labor. -Whitney Gross/Mr. Bruns3. What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?Prohibition- is the banning of something whether it be alcohol, rock and roll, or paper clips? In this case its alcohol. People wanted prohibition bacause there were not many laws against alcohol and people thought that all the public drunkeness was morally wrong, so people basically wanted an end to this. All the drunks was causing a lot of crime suck as people using the black market and peopel cheating on their spouses. Religious women were the main pushers of prohibitions.Carrie A. Nation was a HUGE pusher of prohibition. She was like six feet tall and 170 pounds. She was a very stern woman who did not like drinking, tobacco, or fashionably dressed women. Ha (: She was someone who went into bars and chewed out all of the people that were drinking and would even smash the place with the ax. She started first by just simple protesting, but then took things further. Nation began to pray to God for an answer. She said that God answered her and told her to go to Kiowa and took smashers? She began to throw rocks and smash the salloons, then Kansas was hit with a tornado and she took this as an approval of her actions. She was arrested numberous times.Also, there were a lot of public announcements that talked about the evils of alcohol. One of the big things that got supporters was that supporters thought that taking a drink or two was fine because they were just trying to get rid of drunkeness but then alcohol was completely banned and that made a lot of people, even the people that were for it at first, angry. This was lost during the Civil war but was later brought back up. The eighteenth ammendment banned the distribution of alcohol in all states. This banning led to a lot of organized crimes.During this time the prohibitionists realized their idea wasn't working and people still had their home-made alcohol, "moonshine" they got back to congress and had the Volstead act made so then alcohol was completely illegal except for in church and for medicine. This started mobs that sold alcohol, and other underground bars. At the time jazz music was hated because it was linked with the private bars called speak-easies. In 1933 the 21st ammendment was made to take out the 18th ammendment.Today- now every state allows alcohol. some states kept the prohibitions a while after it was stopped. today the alcohol restrictions rely on the counties, because there are dry counties. The drinking age is 21, which has been changes a lot over the years.
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