*Worker Safety/conditions
younguns were pretty much forced to work, sometimes before the legal age of 14. There were efforts to limit the number of working hours.
*Reforming elections
Oregon came up with the secret ballot. Known as the Austrailian Ballot. Primary system let voters choose candidates and not political machines.
*Segregation
women couldn't get jobs so they did chores around the house/farm. Women lead reform. NACW (national association of colored women)
*Regulating food & drugs
1906 Roosevelt pushed for the Meat Inspection Act. animals had to pass inspection before and after slaughter. popular children's meds had cocaine, opium, alcohol
*Conservation
people used up a lot of their natural resources. Roosevelt set aside 148 million acres of forest land, got the gov't started claiming unused land for public use, established a system of forest fire prevention
*Monopolies
dominating a market was good for business, bad for average consumer.
*Taxation/Banking
Woodrow WIlson worked to lower tarriff rates. Underwood Act reduced tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War. graduated income tax came about. the more you earned, the more you paid.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor
*Muckrakers
Journalists told of the corrupt side of business and public life in mass magazines.
*Efficiency in the workplace
*Women social changes
19th ammendment passed in 1919 gave women the right to vote.
*Reforming Government
many cities had the same form of gov't. initiative allowed people to petition and start a bill. Referendum was voting on the bill. Recall was voting someone out of office at the state level. 17th amendment gave voters the right to elect their own state senators. before then it was the state legislature.
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