https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6 Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2017-02-16 16:12:39 UTC 2025-12-13 19:26:09 UTC hello@padlet.com maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361490 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.]]> 2017-02-16 16:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361490 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361627 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)]]> 2017-02-16 16:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361627 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361915 progressives tried to help children. Florence Kelley  helped convince the state of Illinois to ban child labor, and others states soon passed similar laws.]]> 2017-02-16 16:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154361915 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154362679 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. ]]> 2017-02-16 16:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154362679 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363080 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 ]]> 2017-02-16 16:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363080 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363235 Progressive reformers decided to free government from the political bosses and powerful business interests ]]> 2017-02-16 16:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363235 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363464 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 ]]> 2017-02-16 16:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154363464 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154364360 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     ]]> 2017-02-16 16:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154364360 maryna_pashkevich https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154365205 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]]> 2017-02-16 16:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/maryna_pashkevich/jv9ktjqxmbw6/wish/154365205