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The European immigration was significant to the progressive era. The influx of, British, Asian, and Jewish immigrants led to a surplus of new cultural diversity as well as Religious diversity. These new immigrants came to find better opportunities and work. -
The Antitrust act was an act passed by, President Wilson. This act helped control the monopolizing of businesses and kept regulation in order. -
The coal strike of 1902 was a strike between mine workers and about 150,000 members of the UMW. President. Roosevelt made it his goal to resolve this conflict. And in doing so he provided them with arbitration and instead when the workers refused, he threatened for the army to begin running the mines. This, intern, was Roosevelts first step in establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society. -
Westerners and farmers were seriously competing for water as irrigation was very low at this point. The Newlands reclamation act helped provide for new irrigation in order for less competition between farmers and Westerners. Roosevelt made sure that Federal funds would be the ones paying for this new irrigation. -
The department of commerce and labor was created in 1903, and this department was significant in the economic efficiency of the nation. What it did was, it would privately be able to inform companies of their issues in the workplace and then it would give those companies a chance to quietly resolve them without creating a public distrust. This gave Roosevelt the ability to regulate big business without having to sacrifice economic efficiency. -
Prior to these acts, there hadn’t been many controversies between the food and drug that were being sold. Critics had exposed many meat, companies and medicine, companies for horrendous food management, and false medicine. These acts truly helped to relieve the Publix. Thoughts on what they are eating and what medicine they are putting into their bodies. These laws benefited the people greatly by ensuring that they wouldn’t get sick from what they ate and it was safe. -
the children’s bureau was in charge of regulating and looking into child labor. This bureau was in charge of investigating and reporting all things pertaining to children in the workplace, their welfare and the environment that they were in. This seriously helped with the freeing of child labor laws and the welfare of children in this time period. -
The 16th ammendment is what made it possible for a large source of revenue to be available to the federal government. They did this by creating a nationwide, federal income tax, that benefited the nation greatly, and the government. -
17th amendment was a huge mile stone in which it established a election of Senators by the people instead of state legislators. This re-insured the public and the nation itself that it would reduce corruption and it would increase accountability. -
The 19th amendment made marked a significant milestones for the women’s suffrage movement. Women had suffered greatly, and had been denounced and oppressed for years. But the 19th amendment began a state of change for women all across the nation. It made it possible for women to have the right to vote, this represented a triumph for the progressive era, and for women themselves.