Progressive Era

Reforms

Child labor

National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)

1 out of every 6 children between the ages of 5 and 10 were working

U.S. Children's bureau

President Taft

greater awareness to the issue of child labor

Keating-Owen Act

Prohibit the interstate trade of good produce with child labor

U.S. Supreme Court declared law unconstitutional

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

establish minimum wage

restricts trade of child produced goods

Women Labor

opposed sweatshop labor

Encouraged Safety Laws

8 hr workday

Efforts were initially met with strong resistance

Union

The Knights of Labor

American federation of Labor

Woodrow Wilson

Teddy Roosevelt

Social Darwinism

"Survival of the fittest

Herbert Spencer

Social Gospel

Conflict

Farmers

Railroads

populism

Referendum

Vote to keep or get rid of existing law

Recall

voting someone out of office

Initiative

Proposed Law

initiated by the people

Primary System

allowed party members to vote directly for a candidate

16th

17th

18th

19th

Suffrage

Temperance

Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Upton Sinclair

Author

"The Jungle"

Lincoln Steffens

Ida Tarbell

WEB DuBois

NAACP

Booker T Washington

Tuskeegee Institute