*Worker Safety/conditions
*Reforming elections
*Segregation
*Regulating food & drugs
*Conservation
*Monopolies
*Taxation/Banking
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
*Reforming Government
Rey- Reforming government. Reforming Elections. Aid Oganizaion. R.G.- reinvention. Gov. focussed on what the people needed. People wanted the goverenment to get built up so things would cost less. atleast 18 states had a rule the polititians had to retire at a certain age. Reforming elections- changes trying to help people.
Austin- Taxation/ banking- four constitutional act. Meat inspecting Act- required meet packing plants to ad here by sanitation. It haulted the sales of false products. Worker safety conditions. Ban Child labor laws. Keating Owen act in 1916 the act prohibited the product to cross state in line if it was made with child labor. Two years after the act was passed the supreme court declared that is was unconstitutional due to the states rights to regulate labor.
Austin- woker conditions- long hours union membership potential violence progress. Woker compensatio. hours changed. Child labor laws. Minimum wage. Working condition improved. Women got paid mre made only minimum wage. Monopolies- where a company buys our others of the same service. They made it impossible to use a different company.to get anything. Roosecelt elected for progressive's party. wanted to regulate monopolies not end them. Good trust and bad trusts. Not all are bad. We are capitalistic economy. Laze afair approach. supreme courted thought that the oil company wasnt a monopoly. Sherman Act made it more illegal to create monopolioes \. 1909 i/3 of the oil was minfactured bu the one company because of trusts or bonds. This set off public debate.
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