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Social Reform Progressive

By JanethS.
  • Women’s Suffrage

    Women’s Suffrage

    In 1890 the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
    groups united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
  • Erdman Act

    Erdman Act

    prohibited discrimination against railroad workers because of union membership and provided for mediation of railway labor disputes .
  • National Child Committee

    National Child Committee

    The National Child Labor Committee was established with the goal of abolishing all child labor
  • The jungle

    The jungle

    Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968), publishes his muckraking novel The Jungle about labor exploitation and appalling conditions in meatpacking plants.