Progressive Era blog

The Progressive Era- 1890-1920

Constitutional Amendments

• Authorized an income tax
  
• Provided for the direct election of senates
  
• Extended the vote to women
  
• Prohibited the manufacture and sell of alcholic beverages
  

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/progressivism/index.cfm

Workers & Working Conditions?

• Muckrackers bought attention to the harsh working conditions
  
• Compared then to now there is not really any news about people getting hurt during the job unlike back then a man was literally chooped up to pieces while doing his job.
  
• They dealt with the long hours and bad pay and bad conditions just because it was a job and it was a steady one.
  
• Three reforms (1 private) were created during the Progressive Era which was a response to the industrial safety problems

Advances in technology

Plant construction continued to improve conditions

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/mono-regsafepart05.htm

Conservation

• Americans seemed to think that there was an endless supply of natural resources and they just went through a lot at that time and developed a tradition of waste.
  
• When conservationalists realized that there wasn’t they called for federal supervision of the nation’s natural resources and for them to preserve some natural resources for future generations.
  

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/conserve/conserve.html