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One of the first women's rights advocate. She tried to help women gain the right to vote and take part in electing officials.

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The Knights of Labor were a group of workers who advocated for better workers rights. They tried to improve work conditions and were one of the first unions.

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He was the President of the United States during the time. He tried to help the people gain more rights, especially workers. He also helped preserve national parks.

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She dedicated her life to reforms and trying to make work conditions reasonable and help ban child labor.

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The health and medicine before the reform was very poor. Many people could not afford medicine for themselves or family members. Because of that, many people died at an early age. After many incidents, building codes and regulations were required in order for buildings to be able to open.

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Many people during the progressive era were not treated equally, especially minorities. Change was needed to help the United States move forward. Journalists helped the civil rights movement. They helped bring light to the situation and eventually things got better for minorities in the U.S.

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In the 1900's 15 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. Many of these people settled in cities with lots of job opportunities. The U.S had trouble taking all these immigrants into the U.S. City services had trouble keeping up with all the people. The jobs immigrants took were poorly paying that jobs that most people didn't want. Overtime, conditions got better for immigrants.

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Factories and large corporations were abusing their power and taking advantage of their employees. After thousands of children were injured in mines and factories, they put an age restriction on work and required children to be a certain age before they could start working. This helped them also focus of their education instead of work.

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The Government needed change. They were very corrupt and needed to change. They tried making the Government more efficient by breaking task down and use more standardized tools. They made sure that political leaders were actually qualified for the job. City officials were elected by cities instead of certain neighborhoods.

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Labor reforms started when workers wanted better rights in the workplace. Corporate bosses had all the power and the workers had no say. Unions formed to help workers gain more rights. Overtime Unions have become stronger and had an even larger say in the corporate world.

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Women believed they deserved the right to vote. They wanted the change in policies so they could participate in Government just like men could. They held a meeting at The Seneca Falls Convention. This started the movement for women in 1848. Since then women have fought for the rights to vote. It eventually got attention from politicians. President Woodrow Wilson passed the 19th amendment that allowed women the right to vote.

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The Government was afraid that large corporations were abusing power. Roosevelt regulated this by telling the companies their problems and allowing them to fix them "quietly". This allowed the companies to not lose money by being exposed and in exchange, more regulations were made.