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American Indian Organize
Demands for equal rights and greater opportunities for American Indians also surfaced during this period. During this tine The Dawes Act had caused many Indians to lose thier property to land speclators and fall deeper into poverty. Some progressives took up thier cause. -
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelly worked tirelessly on new laws that prohibit or linit child labor and limit conditions for female workers. In 1893 she helped Illinois legislatures prohibit child labor and limit the number of women working. Most childern worked in agriculture, children in the factories faced the worst conditions. Reformers heard stories of Supervisors splashing water on the childerns faces to wake them up and the girls who worked more then 16 hours a day in canning factories. -
American Federation of Labor
Was the major labor organization in these years that remainded. It was led by Samuel Gompers he used it as trust.It excluded unskillled workers- most of whom were eastern European Immigrants or African Americans. -
The Passage of Prohibition
Prohibition a ban on the manufacture, sale,and transportation of alcohol beverage. The Anti-Saloon League and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union led the crusade against alcohol. By 1902 the had branches in 39 states with 200 paid members. -
Tarbell and Standard Oil
In November McClure's ran the first installment of " History of the Standard Oil Company" by Ida Tarbell. Tarbell was born in western Pennsylvania in 1857. Tarbell was deeply angered whem Johm D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company began swallowing up independent oil companies. -
Muckraking books
Lincoln Steffens documented urban political corruption in The Shame of the Cities. The year a writer Ray Stannard Baker toured the nation examing the plight of African Americans. Published in 1908 and his book described a lynching in Springfrield, Ohio. -
The IWW
It was founed in Chicago in 1905, The Indusrial Workers of the World (IWW) opposed capitalism. Referring to the Continental Congress that had declared U.S. independence. The IWW leader was WIlliam "Big ball" Haywood made claims for working class -
City Planning
The City planning movement grw of progressives in belief that in would make a cleaner citie which would produce beter citizens. In1909 was the first National Conference on City Planning. Also, Adaniel burnham a leader Architect and City planner, produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago. -
African American Organization
Du Bois and a group of African Americans and white progressives met in New York CIty to discusse the lynching of two Arican Americans men. Out of this came the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this was an organization to end racail discrimanation. Du Bois edited his own magazine called The Crisis, which was publicized cases of racial inequality. The National Urban League also fought for racil equality. -
Female and Child Laborers
Almost half of the women who worked in such jobs as factory workers, store clerks, and laundresses earned less than 6 dollors a week. In 1916 The Commission on Industrial Relations reported that this salary "means that every penny must be counted, every normal desire stifled, and each basic necessity of life barely satisfied." Women often faced significant barriers when they tried to increas their income. For example, pieceworkers could be penalized for working to fast.