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Chapter 4 Section 1, page 101
On this political cartoon we can see as a person standing on a "Tax Payer" and giving money to someone. It is an example of corruption. Because rich people taking money from poor and giving it to other rich people

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g. Theodore Roosevelt's Attacks on the Railroads, Trustbusting , and Regulation of Food/Drugs

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g. Theodore Roosevelt's Attacks on the Railroads, Trustbusting , and Regulation of Food/Drugs

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In 1887, Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to oversee the rail charge  for shipments that passed through more that one state. The ICC was supposed to make sure that all shippers were charged the same amounts of money. In response to an antitrust suit filed by Roosevelt's attorney general, the Supreme Court ruled in 1904 that the Northern Securities Company- a big railroad company- was an illegal. Roosevelt's Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act in 1906

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In the 1891 Congress decided to preserve forests, but only for the pubic use. Also, Roosevelt changed the water policy and he created the program that restores the government's trust busting power

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Progressive reformers decided to free government from the political bosses and powerful business interests

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During the 1900s , there was the highest rate of industrial accidents in the world. Long hours, poor ventilation, hazardous fumes, and unsafe machinery threatened not only workers' health hut also their lives. After a fire, big accident where a lot of workers died, progressives  decided to make a better working conditions for their workers Need in protecting their workers. They tried to make workplaces safer, compensation laws, limiting the workday to 10 hours

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Progressives tried to better children's lives by improving education. A number of states passes the laws that required children to attend school until the certain age. However, there were heated debates about what children should learn and how they should learn.

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progressives tried to help children. Florence Kelley  helped convince the state of Illinois to ban child labor, and others states soon passed similar laws.

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Muckrakers it is a journalists. They wrote sensational investigative reports. Lincoln Steffens known for uncovering social problems. He wrote about political corruption. Jacob Riis was a photographer, he took a pictures of meat packing industry(all the environment where employers packed the meat)

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There were a lot of problems during the Progressive Era. Child labor, no rights for women, a lot of corrupt organizations, violence, racism. At the fore-front of the Progressivism were middle-class people.