https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6 en-us 2017-02-16 16:13:55 UTC 2023-02-19 22:37:23 UTC hello@padlet.com mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154363479 Muckrakers were journalists, photographers, and authors who released their work to bump up the awareness of social issues and injustice. The two leading muckrakers were Lincoln Steffens and Jacob Riis. Steffens exposed how the government of Philadelphia let utility companies charge their customers excessively high fees. Riis published How the Other Half Lives, consisting of the crowded, unsafe, rat-infested tenement buildings where the urban poor lived.]]> 2017-02-16 16:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154363479 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372060 Florence Kelley helped convince the state of Illinois to ban child labor. Leading onto 1916, Congress passed the Keating-Owens Act, banned child labor. Child labor ends on 1938 for good. Laws were passed that required children to attend school until a certain age.  ]]> 2017-02-16 16:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372060 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372448 2017-02-16 16:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372448 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372706 2017-02-16 16:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154372706 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154375733 2017-02-16 16:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154375733 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154376974 Progressives intensified their calls for reform, making New York pass laws to make workplaces safer. Progressives also persuaded some states to pass laws limiting the workday to 10 hours.]]> 2017-02-16 16:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154376974 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154378637 2017-02-16 16:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154378637 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154379169 The main problem were the tenement houses. They were very crowded tiny homes, that families live in and share one room with their family members. The Progressives wanted better conditions, as in social welfare laws to help children, as well as government regulations to aid workers and consumers.]]> 2017-02-16 17:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154379169 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154522381 2017-02-17 06:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154522381 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154522720 The Progressives brought changes in the federal government by bringing an accountability through laws that brought regulations to banking, business, mining, transportation, working conditions for workers and farmers. States developed programs for children and the elderly, while city governments were more accountable to the citizens by publishing their annual budgets and holding hearings for major changes, such as healthier foods, more care for children through community agencies and safer workplaces for labor.]]> 2017-02-17 06:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154522720 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154523413 2017-02-17 07:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154523413 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154523706 John Muir was an important impact as he led Congress to create Yosemite National Park in 1890, as Roosevelt admired him. We still have the Yosemite National Park meaning it did succeed.]]> 2017-02-17 07:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154523706 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154525895 2017-02-17 07:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154525895 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154525962 Roosevelt pushed Congress to pass the Elkins Act in 1903, which imposed fines on railroads that gave special rates to favored shippers. An antitrust suit filed by Roosevelt's attorney general. Big railroad company, Northern Securities Company, was an illegal trust. Forced company to split into smaller companies. Roosevelt urged Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act, provided federal agents to inspect any meat sod across state lines and required federal inspection of meat-processing plants. As well as the pure food and drug act.]]> 2017-02-17 07:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154525962 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154526917 2017-02-17 07:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154526917 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527000 2017-02-17 07:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527000 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527049 2017-02-17 07:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527049 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527231 Adults forced children to work as adults were receiving little money from their jobs. Which was a cause in how child labor came into effect. They could pay the children little to nothing to work in poor conditions.]]> 2017-02-17 07:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527231 mikaelamarie_valenzu https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527622 What does it mean to be "progressive?" 
It means a change from step by step.
How is this still relevant today?
Today progressive is still relevant today by how they just debate over immigration. ]]> 2017-02-17 07:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mikaelamarie_valenzu/cp88xni19rc6/wish/154527622