1. Progressive Reforms
Progressives part 2
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2. 1. Women’s Rights
-more states granting suffrage
-organized protests to gain voting rights
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucy Stone
-*faced constant opposition, men feared women would vote for abolition, child labor laws, & overall change the role of W in society
-often treated unequally in the economic world

3. 2. Consumer Reforms
-insurance regulations :Coverage if hurt on the job
-zoning laws : Where businesses can and CANNOT operate
-building codes: Fire escapes, Lights in Dark Hallways
-FDA (Food and Drug Admistration)
Upton Sinclair
“The Jungle”

4. 2 Consumer Reforms Continued: The Jungle
-written by Upton Sinclair
-muckraking novel
-meant to expose the conditions of immigrants
-impact of novel was the description of meatpacking industry

5. 2 Consumer Reforms Continued: The Jungle
-investigated Sinclair’s claims
-passed Meat Inspection Act, 1906
Required fed. Inspection of meat shipped across state lines
-later passage of Pure Food and Drug Act
-FDA 1. Ended the sale of contaminated foods & Medicines
2. Required truth in labeling
*Did not ban harmful products altogether
Gov’t Action

13. 3. Labor Reforms
-Women’s Working Conditions
Oregon v. Muller
limited women’s working hours 10 hrs
Change in Supreme Court Rulings
-Limits on child labor
At least 12 years old, 10 hours a day

14. 4.Other Reforms
-income tax established: more money to the FED Gov’t from our PAYCHECK , than any tariff before it
16th Amendment
-Prohibition begins
-Carrie Nation
-WCTU : Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
-18th Amendment: prohibition of Alcohol
-Volstead Act : National Prohibition Act

15. 16th Amendment: Income Tax
17th- Amendment: Direct Election of Senators
18th- Amendment: PROHIBITION OF Alcohol
19th Amendment: Women’s right to vote

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17. 5. Government Reforms
-commission government members (commissions)
-Decide local laws and best interest of community/ county/ town.
( basically rebuild ENTIRE city)
-manager government : city council makes laws, manager runs city
-better control over public interests

18. 6. Voting Reforms
-Direct primaries: people would vote for who they wanted to run as the parties candidate, instead of Political Machines
-initiatives bill on the ballot, originated by people, not law makers
-referendums people voting on the bill
-recall enabling voters to remove elected officials from office, before end of term

19. 6. Voting Reforms
-direct election of Senators 17th amendment
-Robert La Follette wanted to regulate big Businesses, “fighting Bob”, reform Governor led the way in regulating big businesses