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The Progressive Era

working conditions were terrible

More accidents were happening in the factories than any other industry.

Immigrants came to the United States looking for a better life.

unsanitary tenement buildings, aleast 18 poeple in one at a time.

Women got paid as little as 6 dollars a week.

Women started making groups and organizations for their rights.

Enviromental-ism was brought up for regarding concerns in the conditions.

Inspired the African Americans to use their voice againt their rights as well.

Due to all of the health hazards Congress passed the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act in 1906

19th amendment stated no human shall be denied the right to vote, made up by congress and Theodore Roosevelt

Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts were passed in 1914 to ensure safe business practices

Black education and rights was being brought attention

Booker T. Washington brought up the Tuskegee Institute, a school for black education

NAACP was an organization for bi-racial peoples to advance justice for colored people

Upton Sinclair wrote 100s of books on the conditions during this time

Jane Adams was a socialists and leader of the women's suffrage

Alice Paul was one of the main campaigners for this amendment

John Muir brought attention to the wildlife and classified Yosemite as a National park

Glifford Pinchot served as the first chief is forest service

William Howard Taft came up with a foreign policy that wold give loans to outside countries

Jane Addams developed the Hull House, which was a home to European Immagrants