Low wages, dangerous working conditions, refusal to recognize unions, and long hours.Strikes, unions, and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).William Dudley Haywood
Government Reforms
Poor urban neighborhoods, prejudice, hard labor and living conditions, not granted citizenship.Settlement houses and League of United Latin American Citizens.Jane Addams and Mexican Americans.
Prohibition
Women couldn't voteCarrie Chapman Catt created the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Alice Paul led suffragists to picket the white house, and the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.Woodrow Wilson
Muckrakers/Crusaders
Trusts, banking, and tariffs.Federal Reserve Act of 1913.Woodrow Wilson
Links between drinking, prostitution, wife and child abuse, unemployment, and industrial accidents.Anti-Saloon League, closing establishments that sell alcohol on Sunday's, prohibitionists pushed for state legislation to outlaw the sale of liquor, and the 18th amendment.Congress
Poisons in patent medicines and filthy conditions in meatpacking plants.Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.Theodore Roosevelt
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