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Progressive Era - Coggle Diagram
Progressive Era
Health and Safety
Progressive: Upton Sinclair made a novel talking about the meat in the factories which led to Americans wondering if the food they were eating was healthy. Alice Hamilton was a doctor who saw people getting sick from lead poising and started teaching factory workers how to clean their machines. Lillian Wald had the idea to send nurses and doctors to homes where people were too sick and poor to go to the hospital.
Problem: There was no way to know if the food you were eating was healthy/not contaminated or if the medicine was safe as well.
Change: Visiting Nurse Program in New York City so that many nurses could help sick people at home. Wald also had the idea that there should be nurses in schools to help sick children.
Conservation
Change: Teddy Roosevelt pushed for Federal laws that would make businesses and companies obey laws regarding the use of natural resources. Businesses could no longer just cut down trees anywhere. There were government rules established that limited how and where trees could be cut down.
Progressive: President Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir loved Yosemite Valley so much they decided to preserve Yosemite and other areas for people's children and grandchildren to enjoy. They preserved more than 200 million acres of public lands.
Problem: The natural resources were seen to be used badly and many of the land was being used and destroyed for other uses.
Poverty
Change: Settlement Houses were established in other urban areas, offered opportunities such as English classes, child care, and work training to community residents.
Progressive: Jacob A Riis was a photographer whose photos of slums and tenements in New York City shocked society. Jane Addams helped people in a neighborhood of immigrants in Chicago, Illinois. She and her friend, Ellen Starr, bought a house and turned it into a Settlement House
Problem: Many families could not afford to buy houses and usually lived in rented apartments or Crowded Tenements. These buildings were run down and overcrowded.
Child Labor
Change: The National Child Labor Committee was formed and created the Compulsory Education Law that made it that kids had to attend school and could not work in factories or mines.
Progressive: Lewis Hine made the change, he would take pictures of the kids, and would put them on newspapers, magazines, and books. to inform people about the issue.
Problem:Around 2 million kids were working in mines and factories getting paid little to nothing working tons of hours. Also they had to work dangerous machines.
Worker's Rights
Changes: In 1886 the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded. For over 37 years as president of the AFT, Gompers worked hard to make changes in many workplaces. Slowly American workers began to see Laws that limited work hours and increased wages.
Progressive: Samuel Gompers was a famous union leader. He became the leader of the union in his factory. He felt workers all over the United States needed unions and felt new laws were needed to help working people.
Problem: Factory workers were usually paid very low wages and Long work days in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Most factory workers could not make enough money to support their families so their children had to work in factories too instead of going to school. Workers were also afraid to ask their bosses for rasies.