Today we had presentations
....Notes....
*Worker Safety/conditions
*Reforming elections
*Segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
*Conservation
became morew concerned about protecting forests, Sequoia National Park was the first, Harrison- Presidentail Proclamation, National Forest System, Reservations of land in Wyoming, save for future generation
*Monopolies
Sherman Trust Act, breaking up big monopolies, like Standard Oil, Clayton anti- Trust Act strenghtened Sherman Act
*Taxation/Banking
Bully pulpit, tariffs, income tax invented, 16th admendment, 1913, power for govenment to wage income tax, tariff is a tax on imported goods, high tariffs???- to keep other countries goods out of our contry so americans buy our own goods, helped the wealthy, less competion, the more you make the
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
Union workers, populists came into play, Knights of Labor, and Farmers Alliance, Red cross, Jane Adams
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
*Reforming Government
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