Today we are continuing ch 9 projects.
Worker Safety/Conditions
factories and other working areas werent safe
small children and other workers often faved dangerous equipment every day
chi9ldren were affected greatly
hired for size and ability to handle smaller tools and didnt need skills
many accidents were fatigue related
some kids had stundted growth
1904 came National Child Labor Comittee raised awareness of the childrens plight
joined by laborers arguing their wages made all wages go down
Keating Owen Acto fo 1916- child labor goods cant cross state lines
1908 Muller vs Oregon- Louis Brandeis got a ten hour workday for people
progressives also won compensation
Segregation, Rooseveltand Civil Rights
early 1900 african americans were prohibited from white america no rights, no justice
president Roosevelt failed to support blac americans
NAACP was founded by liberal whites to advance black issues
the Civil Rights movement took place betweens 1955 and 1968
1964 Civil Rights Bill Outlawed Discrimination
populas didnt do anything to help this movementhe cared about the food and drug health problems
Conservation
Teddy Roosevelt was an activist of all kinds.
was concerned about the conservation o the nationss resources
believed that areas should be set aside-wilderness areas
thought some attempt should be made to save resources
help set up irrigation systems in the west
Aid Organizations/Helping poor
settlement houses
imroved treatment of african and native americans
improved conditions for factory workers and workers in general
gave some financial help to poor
Social Gospel Movement
some of the aid organizations in the early 1900s wanted to help in a big way by trying to raise money for the poor
dangerous job
didnt get paid well
upper class didnt help of care at all, they wanted their own things and didnt want to share
James Addams was one of the most influencial people in this time
Muckrakers
magazine people
got name because they took out things in society and tried to expose the problems, and the president at the time called them muckrakers because they so to speak " raked the muck"
Efficienty in the Workplace
believed that old was inefficient and useless
assembly lines, machines
more done in less time
used science, engineering, and technology
example: the city manager system
undercover Investigative Journalists that were givenbn the name muckrakers by President Theodore Rooseovelt
Women and Social Changes
1919 Congress passed the nineteenth amendment which was Womens Right to Vote
Taxation and Banking
world war one really transformed the taxation laws and beliefs
the sixteenth ammendment was a huge part of our history
it meant that it made it legal for the us gov to levy an income tax and to use the money however it seems fit.
this ammendment didnt expand more power to the gederal goc
the Revenue Act of 1913 put a 1 percent tax on net personal incomes that wedre above 3,000 dollars witha six percent surtax on income more than 500000 dollars
this means for the one percent youre taking a big chunk of thaqt money and for the six percent youre not taking as much.
this is called graduated income tax.
first bank ever built was in 1791
the Panic of 1907, bankers thought they wouldnt manage
were only country who didnt have a central bank
bankers needed money to give to people in the midwest
they didnt have enough money to lend out and neither did anywhere else in the country
Monopolies
Clayton AntiTrust Act= stopped bigger companies from getting the stocks of the smaller bussienesses which then stopped monopolies from forming
clayton antitrust act was made to strengthen the sherman act
controlled about 4/5 of the industries in the US
The Sherman AntiTrust act was passed to try and breakup monopolies
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914-this act set up the Federal Trade Commissions(was "watchdog for gov)
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