1. Poverty
1.1. Problem
1.1.1. Crowded Tenements, these were run down buildings
1.1.2. Sanitary problems in these buildings and they are unsafe
1.2. Solution
1.2.1. Jacob Riis took photos to inspire people to help with these conditions
1.3. Reformers
1.3.1. Jacob A. Riis, took photos of the immigrants living conditions to inspire the people
1.3.2. Jane Adams, she helped the immigrants by buying houses and turning them into settlements for them
2. Health and safety
2.1. Problems
2.1.1. Contaminated food and medicine was sold in America and there was no law about this
2.1.2. Lack of Health care in America, in different areas like factories
2.2. Solution
2.2.1. The pure food and drug act, this banned the sale of impure food
2.2.2. Visiting nurse program, this made it so that nurses could help sick people at there house
2.3. Reformers
2.3.1. Upton Sinclair, he wrote the jungle book that showed everyone how unsanitary factories were which passed the Pure Food and Drug Act
2.3.2. Alice Hamilton, she taught factories how to become more safer and air clean for the workers
2.3.3. Lillian Wald, she was nurse that came up with the Visiting nurse program
3. Conservation
3.1. Problem
3.1.1. The loss of natural resources
3.2. Solution
3.2.1. Roosevelt strived for laws that prohibited company's to cut down trees unlawfully
3.2.2. Roosevelt made lots of national parks to preserve wildlife and resources
3.3. Reformers
3.3.1. Teddy Roosevelt, he pushed for laws for company's not to chop down to many trees
3.3.2. John Muir, he was a naturalist that preserved precious land for everyone to see
4. Suffrage
4.1. Problem
4.1.1. Women did not have the rights that men had like voting rights
4.2. Solution
4.2.1. 19th amendment was passed which gave women rights to vote
4.3. Reformers
4.3.1. Elizabeth Cady, she was the first president of the NAWSA organization
4.3.2. Susan B. Anthony, she was also a president for the NAWSA organization
4.3.3. NAWSA, this was a organization for women's rights
5. Workers Rights
5.1. Problem
5.1.1. After civil war many people were factories workers in unsafe environments with very low wages
5.1.2. People had very long work hours
5.2. Solutions
5.2.1. Labor Unions and strikes were formed to make there jobs better, better pay, better hours, etc
5.2.2. AFL, this was a organization that would change the hours and the conditions of factory workers
5.3. Reformers
5.3.1. Samuel Gompers, this was a person that was a famous Union leader, and fought for laws to become better for workers
5.3.2. AFL, this organization set laws to change the conditions of workers in this time period
6. Prohibition
6.1. Problems
6.1.1. Alcoholism
6.1.2. Immorality
6.2. Solutions
6.2.1. 18th amendment which banned the manufacturing and sales of Alcohol in US
6.3. Reformers
6.3.1. Carrie Nation, she preached the evils of Alcohol
6.3.2. Mary Hunt, she was a supporter of prohibition was in the women Christian union
6.3.3. Al Capone, he had a private army that controlled Chicago to get alcohol
6.4. Consequences
6.4.1. Organized crime to get alcohol and distribute it
6.4.2. Bootleggers made transportation and selling liquor illegal
6.4.3. Speakeasies were illegal night clubs that sold liquor
6.5. Solution
6.5.1. 21th amendment, this reversed the 18th amendment
7. Corruption
7.1. Problem
7.1.1. Political Machines, they were organizations that influenced votes and controlled local governments
7.1.2. Tammany Hall, this was a machine ran by " Boss Tweed" who stole money from the city
7.2. Solution
7.2.1. Direct primary, this was an establishment that let the voters choose candidates for parties to run for election
7.3. Reformers
7.3.1. Robert M. La Follette, as governor of Wisconsin he established the first Direct Primary
8. Child Labor
8.1. Problem
8.1.1. The problem was child labor, kids working in unsafe environments at young ages
8.2. Solution
8.2.1. The National Child Labor Committee, this organization was dedicated to ending all child labor
8.3. Reformers
8.3.1. Lewis Hine, he was a photographer that took pictures of the child labor to show everyone how terrible it was
8.3.2. NCLC, this was a organization that was determined to end child labor
9. Racism
9.1. Problems
9.1.1. Segregation between whites and blacks which could cause violence
9.1.2. African-Americans did not have rights and could not vote without tests and and poll tax
9.2. Solution
9.2.1. Tuskegee Institute, this helped African-Americans learn trades and gain economic strength
9.2.2. N.A.A.C.P, was formed to end discrimination against African-Americans
9.3. Reformers
9.3.1. Ida B. Wells, she was fighting against lynching and violence against black people
9.3.2. Booker T. Washington, he founded the Tuskegee Institute and help African Americans gain education
9.3.3. W.E.B Dubois, he started the N.A.A.C.P organization that tried to end discrimination against blacks