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The "progressiveness" can be relevant to today because the United States of American is still making changes to the citizens in a mostly good way. progressive era was making big changes by giving children more education, making the government better and improving the payment and hours of work for the citizens and children.

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To describe this cartoon, the kids are pulling adults which means that kids were working at lot or even more than the adults in the factories.

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he convinced congress to establish the department to commence and labor to monitor business engaged in interstate commerce and to keep capitalists from abusing their power. he pushed the congress to pass the Elkins act in 1903 which imposed fines on railroads that gave special rates to favored shippers.

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Roosevelt had pleased that the federal government had established Yellowstone national park in 1872 to protect the wildlife and he admired the naturalist John Muir whose efforts had led congress to create Yosemite national park in 1890.

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The government had many impacts on the states therefore they were expanding the role of government in regulating the economy and in giving citizens, for the first time, direct access to the legislative process. Those gave the voters direct access to the gov. states developed programs for the children and elderly. The government was more accountable to their citizens.

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New York passed laws to make workplaces safer, and other cities and states followed suit. Many states also adopted workers' compensation laws which set up funds to pay workers who were hurt on the job. Progressives also persuaded some states to pass laws limiting the workday to 10 hours.

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Since children worked in mills and factories, the National Child Labor Committee which successfully lobbied the federal gov to create the U.S. Children's Bureau in 1912. This new agency examined any issue that affected the health and welfare of children. For education, a member of states passed laws that required children to attend school until a certain age.

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They are socially conscious journalists and other writers dramatized the need for reform. Lincoln Steffens was one leading muckraker. The problem was his reports exposed how the gov of Philadelphia let utility companies charge their customers excessively high fees. Another was Jacob Riis. was a photographer that took pictures of the tenement houses and how crowded it was.

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The city began to grow in population in which had enriched some people although it had many problems as well. Small businesses flourished, incomes rose and factory output grew. one problem that progressives went to solve/target was because of the rise of businesses and trusts. Trusts are companies assign their stock to a board of trustees, who combines the stocks into a new organization. Trustees run the corporation, paying shareholders dividends. The federal gov then began regulating trusts and enacted the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890.