Progressive Era

Progressive Era

Goals:
1. Social welfare: Florence Kelley (Illinois Factory Act) protected women + said no child labor
  1. Moral Improvement: temperance + Prohibition (women w/ alcoholic husbands wanted this
    1. Efficiency: Ford Assembly Line - mass production + payed workers better (more cars= lower prices=more people could afford)
      1. Economy: Debs Socialist Leader- instead of capitalism
        muckrakers- wrote about corruption
        Jacob Riis: showed horrible conditions in slums + poor tenements
        Banks
        Federal Reserve System- regulated banks- they watch each other
        16th Amendment-- (Federal Income tax) -- provide revenue from people's wages + lower tariff
        SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT-- illegal to make trusts that interfered with free trade ++ limited monopolies
    2. 21st Amendment ended Prohibition bc too expensive to monitor so many bootleggers
  2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair- exposed horrors of meat packing industry + treatment of workers
    1. Triangle Shirtwaist Company- huge fire trapped women (helped spread awareness of safety
Segregation:
1. Jim Crow Laws
  1. segregation laws- separate schools, hospitals, parks, transportation
    1. Plessy vs Fergeson - "separate but equal" is ok (not equal at all)
  2. Voting- these things disenfranchised them
    1. Literacy Tests
    2. Poll Tax: annual tax for voting- poor whites + blacks coudn't vote
Women Voting
1. 1) went to state legislature 2) court w/ 14th-women citizens too ------------------------------------- 3) new 19th amendment

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