social reforms progressive

By Ariadne Ivett guzman

  • CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT

    CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
    The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States Congress passed the exclusion act to placate worker demands and assuage prevalent concerns about maintaining white "racial purity"
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    PROGRESSIVE

  • PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

    PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT
    For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes

  • MUCKRACKERS

    MUCKRACKERS
    Muckrakers were a group of writers, including the likes of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment, and segregated public facilities

  • WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE

    WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
    Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections