*Reforming elections-
*Segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
*Conservation
*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.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
*Reforming Government
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