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Boss Tweed
This year marked the end of the time Boss Tweed was stealing from the city treasury. It was bettween 1865 and 1871 that Boss Tweed stole about 200 million dollars. This in a way is favorable towards progress because Tweed was trying to grow and progress his bussiness.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust act was a federal law that declared monopolies and trust to be illegal. A monopolie is exclusive control of an industry, used to elimiante competition. A trust is a group of companies that give their stock to a direction. By eliminating these, there is less cockyness and entitalment in an indusrty is eliminated.
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How the Other Half Lives
This wasa book written by Jacob Riis. This was important because I exposed how the poor lived, This was important to the Progressive era because this was the first time that the rich were exosed to the difficulties the poor faced.
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H.G. Wells
It was during the late 1800's that H.G. Wells wrote about a visit with a political machine. He noted that he was extremely kind and was willing to help someone, even if it ment he was going to get in trouble. This reflects what happened during the progressive era, because people thought political machine were only in it for themselves, but not all of them were.
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Labor laws
Illonis prohibits child labor and limits the number of hours other people could work. This is progress because before this work places could make people work more than they were physically able to do. This is a step in the right direction because people were able to spend more time doing other things and they rested enough to work. -
Euegene Debs
Eugene Debs sided with the Pullman employee strikes. George Pullman annouced he would be making wage cuts and Debs did not like this. Debs siding with the strikers is progress becuase workers in this company were being exploited and Debs decided to do something about it.
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Jacob Riis
On this day Roosevelt and Riis got together to discuss the problems in the New York Police Department. This is important for this time because people were coming together to fix what is broken and progress society.
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan traveled thousdands of miles inorder to win the 1896 election. Proir to this he was a Nebraska congress man. The democrates were infavor of Bryan being in office, but he did not win the election because the United States wanted a republican in power,
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Robert La Follette
La Follette was elected governer of Wisconsin. He was in favor of reform and was liked by the middle class, farmers and the working class. He established the Wisconsin Idea, which was a government that backed reform. This is important to the progressive era, because its effect was for other states to do the same thing.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Thedore Roosevelt was elected president is 1901. This was favorable towards change because presidnet McKinnely was out of office and there was a new reformer. Teddy refused to run on McKinnley's ticket because he knew he could make the nation progress.
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams was a social reformer that created the Hull House. Jane was ver charitable to the less fortunate. Addams was infavor of democray and social eithics. Social ethics is polite moral principals. This is importants to progressivisim because Jane was trying to make society more intune with all types of people. (rich and poor) -
Laundry workers
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Child Labor
The National Child Labor Comittee was formed. This is important because before this comittee was formed, children were able to work as much their employers could squezze out of them. The formation of this comittee is important for time period because children were not force to work.
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The Square Deal
The square deal was a pledge that promised fair treatment for business, workers and the public. This is important to the progressive era because it increased the amount of people being treated fairly.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair published a novel about the meat packing industry, entitled "The Jungle: He wrote this to show the rich the consequence of their actions. This was important to the progressive era because Sinclair was calling people out on what they were doine wrong.
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Labor Reform
The case of Muller verses Oregon is a court case that challenged ten hour days. This is favorable towards progress because people were realizing people should not be working more than ten hour days for their savety. This is important because people were not just complaining about having to work, they were going to the court level to be heard. -
NAACP
The NAACP is the national association for the advancement of colored people. This was found by Du Bois. This is important to the progressive era because it was giving an increased number of people more rights. These increased number of rights were importan to this time because it showed increased equlity.
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STRIKE!!!
20,000 workers stiked in 1912. This was favorable towards change because people were not listening to what their employers wanted, but instead to their collegues. This is important because employees were seeking equal rights -
Minimum Wage
Massachusetts was the first state to pass a minimum wage law. This is important because that year thirty- eight other states passed similar laws. This is important to the progressive era because people were starting to understand that everyone was equal.
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Sixteenth Amendment
The sixteenth amendment was established that authorized an individual income tax.
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Seventeenth Amendment
The seventeenth amendment was established for the direct election of United State senators. This was favorable towards reform because it allowed the government to be choosen be the people.
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AFL
The American Federation of Labor was created. This is importat to the progressive era because it increased vastly in the first several years. This shows that people were advocating for their work.
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Charles Evans Hughes
He was the the republican that ran against Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 election. This is favorable toward because people were considering a new pesident, thus reforming the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was elected president. This is fitting for the progressive era because he had kept the United States out of war, and he planned in doing that for another term.
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Eighteenth Amendment
The eighteenth amendment was created to stop the manufacture, sale, or the bringing in of alcohol. This, at the time, was favorable towards progress. The United States had been looked at like the "promise land" for years, and by having a "clean" society they were fufilling this. Although this amendment was repealed a few years later by the twenty- first amendment, their idea was good for progress -
Nineteenth Amendment
The nineteenth amendment was created so women would have the right to vote. This is favorble towards progress because before this women were under rated. The right to vote is an important because it made the United States increasingly equal. -
City Life
In this year it was noted that about fify percent of people lived in cities. Thid was favorable towards change because jobs and people were becoming increasingly industrialized. The fact that so many people lived in cities at this time is important because people were increasingly seeking a faster paced life style. This life stlye also had its flaws, for example stikes, unfair wages, and long days.
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Hiram Johnson
Hiram Johnson was a senator that caused the United States to want to practice isolationism . Isolationism is the withdrawal from world affairs. This is favorable towards change because by not getting involved in other wars, the United States could focus on goverment.
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Minimum wage
Minimum wage becoming law is important to the progressive era because workers could not be treated unfairly due to gender, race, or age. This is important because it shows that the United States was willing to accept people.
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