progressave 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

Prohibited the interstate trade of any goods produced from child labor

U.S. Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional

Fair Labor Standard Act (1938)

Established minimum wage

restricted trade of child produced goods

Work hours

Unions

Good Working Conditions

The Knights of Labor

recall for 8 hour workdays

equal pay regardless of gender

elimination of convict Labor

worker ownership of bisnesses

Terence V. Powderly

Leader

"One big Union"

Haymarket Affair

May 4, 1886

Chicago's Haymarket Square

Anarchist Group gathered in response to the death of demonstration of eight hour workdays

Deminstration,clashes with police and strikers

Lead to death of Striking worker

protest was quiet

Police Arrived armed for conflict

protester threw a bomb

killing 1

injuring 2 others

7 sentenced to death

2 acquitted

one committed suicide

Press blamed the (KOL)

American Federation of Labor

Eugene Debs

American railroad Union Leader

Ordered Pullman Railcar Strike

Samuel Gompers

Woodrow Wilson

fedral resurves

fedrail traide

Teddy Roosevelt

trust busting

meat inspection act

Social Darwinism

"Survival of the fittest"

Herbert Spencer (created)

Social Gospel

based on christianity take care of poor

ymca

salvation

Conflict

Farmers

Railroads

Populism

ordanary people as "Elie's"

anti-establishment

anti-politics

Referendum

vote to keep or get rid of existing laws

Recall

voting someone out of office

Initiative

poposed

initiated by the people

Primary System

Allowed party members to vote directly for a candidate

16th

Income Tax

17th

U.S. Senators b y the voters of the United states

18th

Ban of Alchoal

19th

Women's righs

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Suffage

Carrie Chapman Cott

State-by-state approch

Anne Dallas Dudley

worked to secure the ratification of the 19th amendment in Tennessee

Alice Paul

Advocated for a for a constitutional amendment

Temperance

The encouragement of the ban of Alchol

Women's labor/work force

Opposed sweatshop labor

Safety laws

Changed work hours to 8 hour workdays

Efforts were initially meet with Strong Resistance

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Robert M. La Follette, Sr

The Wisconsin Idea

to ensure that the people of the State could retain and exercise power in their government and economy

Upton Sinclair

Author

"The Jungle"

Exposed meat packing industry

Lincoln Steffens

Author

"Traitor State"

criticized New jersey for patronizing incorporation

Ida Tarbell

Journalism

American Magazine

Biogriphies

Artiacls

Tariff

WEB DuBois

NAACP)

Booker T Washington

Tuskeegee Institute

(Red Tails)