*Worker Safety/conditions
*Reforming elections
*Segregation- 13th ammenemnt abolshed slavery completly. 14- allow them to be citizens. 15th allowed black males to vote (not progressive). Segregation involved law, private action in transportation, public accommadatrions, recreational facilites prisons armed forces and schools. Pogressives didn't really do much to help the african americans.
*Regulating food & drugs- Roosevelt read the book the Jungle. had certain companies inspected. government had to pay for the inspections. flase advertising. No lables. Medicinces had serious drugs in them. Coca Cola- had concaine in it. 1906 passed the pure food and drug act. No selling of dangerous or contaminated medicines
*Conservation
*Monopolies
*Taxation/Banking- 1913 16th ammenment legalized a graduated federal income tax. G.I.T- The more you make the more they take out of your pay check. 1917 the government got a lot of money from the taxes. governments main source of income.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
*Muckrakers
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes- better paying opportunities, some better jobs. turn of the century 1/5 were employed. 25% were in manufacturing. Women pay was not fair. Women stated going to school more and more and surpass the male race. Women cleaned babysat nannying, but after slavery African amercan women were in poverty and were pushed into the workforce. found poor jobs. Women reform. 1911 major fire. killed 146 women workers. started making reformed groups. Women stated to attend college. Colleges didn't want them to be Co-ed. They wanted more rights in the government. they thought that they were better than african american males and should have the right to vote
-Reforming government- 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. Natural disasters played a big part in city governments. City council people had to find people to help rebuild the towns. People eleceted city council to make laws. The council finds a manager usually someone with a lot of experience to run the cities. Managers were admnistering nearly 250 cities around 1925
Reforming elections- changes trying to help people. Initiative: bill originated by the people rather that the lawmakers. Referendum- A vote on the initiative. Recall: enabled voters to remove public officials from elected posistions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term. Kind of like impeachment. William U'ren wanted secret ballott The initiative and referenum gabe people power to create laws. Government offered immigrants housing money and jobs for their vote.
-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.
-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. Roosevelt 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 1/3 of the oil was minfactured bu the one company because of trusts or bonds. This set off public debate.
We presented today..
-Muckrakers- people who wrote for magazines. Wrote things that weren't the best about our economy. Everything they wrote about led to investigations. led to Worker's rights and childrens rights. Neli Bly- wrote a story about patien abuse. Upton Sinclair- meat packing. Ray Stannard Baker- coal mining .Ida Tarbel- oil company to the modern people and how they raised prices. Conservation- 1887 40 million acres are set aside for the national forest reserve. Set aside 1.5 million acres for water power sights. 80 million acres for envrionmental people to explore. Established more tahn 50 wildlife sanctuaries/national parks. National Reclamation act 1902- New land act.
-women in social change. In farms in the south west. the women roles hardly changed. Women belonged in the kitchen in the home. They didn't even have the opportunity to buy their own things. They weren't allowed to do many things
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