~Workers Safety Conditions:
Worker's Compensation started
Labor unions were legalized
Children labor was banned for kids under the age of 14
Work hours went from 15 to 8 hours
~Regulating Food and Drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
~Reforming Government
tried to make local and state gorernment better through election reform
-direct primary - voters choose candidates
-officials were elected for expertise
-17th Amendment - allows voters to elect senators
~Segregation
Did not help the African Americans out
Woodrow Wilson tried but would not get people support or vote for him if he did
~Iniative - allowed voters of a state to start a bill
~Referendem - where they voted on if it should be legal or not
~Recall - people would have special election to get someone out of office
~Wilson segragated Washington DC
8Madison
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