1. Food industry Problem:
No inspections of factories or quality of product
Businesses “fatten” bottom line by decreasing quality
Example- meat industry

2. Proposed solutions Meat Inspection Act~ Pure Food and Drug Act~
Guaranteed that the government inspects all meat
Factories closed or fined if not following regulations
Pure Food and Drug Act~
Made sure what was advertised was in the product, and what was in the product was advertised.
Both are still effective in society today

3. Workers problems Problems: Hours Wages Injuries Conditions Example:
Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory

4. Proposed solutions Set the working hours
Adamson act~
Set the working hours
Example: Railroad workers will work an average of 8 hours a day (6 days a week)
Minimum wage laws~
Each state sets the minimum wage
Based on each states’ economy
Workman’s compensation insurance~
Receive money for each week out of work if injured on the job
Could not be fired if hurt on job

5. Muller vs. Oregon (1908) Louis Brandies
Persuaded the Supreme court to pass laws protecting women’s weaker bodies from certain work conditions
Hailed a success
Closed women out of “male” jobs
Workers gain control in work place

6. Political problems and solutions
Need to regain power lost by the people
Political Machines & Corruption
Spoils system
Voters have little to no power
(senators part of “millionaires club”)
Political Bosses and individuals ran the cities as their own Kingdoms

7. Proposed solutions 17th amendment State Level
The initiative enables citizens to draft laws and constitutional amendments and place them on the ballot for a popular vote.
The referendum provides for a popular vote on laws passed by the legislature.
The recall allows citizens to remove elected officials from office.
Australian (“Secret”) Ballot

8. Social problems Problem: Tenement and slums The poor
Conditions in the cities

9. Solutions: Each large city passes own regulations Housing regulations~
Settlement houses~
Set up to help poor and immigrant assimilation
Provide temporary relief
Ex. Hull House
Salvation army~
Provided food, clothing, shelter to the needy

10. alcohol 18th amendment~ Temperance movement~ Solutions:
Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
Leader Carrie Nation
Nation divided into “wet” & “dry”
“dry” controlled congress in 1919

11. Women Women defining a new social role
More active in unions and organizations
Wyoming 1st state to give vote to women (1869)
Took 72 years for all states to allow women to vote
1st demand at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul

12. Woman’s Suffrage Political reformers want the woman’s vote
This would change the tone of elections
Many were afraid woman would be a second vote for their husband