Tuesday, October 12th

Today we started presenting projects.

Laborers worker at railroads and other places and worked 7 days a week and usually worked 12 hours a day, there was no age limit saying when people could start working. Children were more likely to get hurt. Keating Owen Act. Reformers helped ban child labor. Workers got better hours safer conditions, and better benefits. Progressives helped reform elections, Oregon was the 1st state to have secret ballot, initiative, referendum, and recall. Secret Ballot let people vote and nobody would know who they voted for. Direct Primary made so voters could elect candidates instead of the party. Roosevelt did not support Rights for African Americans.

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