1. Working to end Racism
1.1. PROBLEMS
1.1.1. Jim Crow Laws
1.1.1.1. Meant to heavily enforce segregation
1.1.2. Segregation
1.2. REFORMERS
1.2.1. Ida B. Wells
1.2.1.1. Worked to fight against Black lynchings in the South, she had to flee to the North because of to much violence effecting towards her
1.2.2. W.E.B Dubois
1.2.2.1. Helped start the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the N.A.A.C.P.
1.2.3. Booker T. Washington
1.2.3.1. Founded the Tuskegee Institute, which was a school that helped African American learn trades and gain economic strength.
1.3. SOLUTION
1.3.1. N.A.A.C.P
1.3.1.1. This group strived to work hard for to end discrimination against African Americans. The group still works hard today
2. Working towards Prohibition
2.1. PROBLEMS
2.1.1. Alcoholism
2.1.1.1. Caused poverty and insanity
2.1.2. People finding illegal ways to get alcohol
2.1.3. Poverty from alcohol
2.2. REFORMERS
2.2.1. Carrie Nation
2.2.1.1. Started prohibition and also worked with Women's Christian Temperance
2.2.2. Women's Christian Temperance
2.2.2.1. A group of women working to start prohibition
2.2.3. Mary Hunt
2.2.3.1. Preached the evils of alcohol to saloons
2.3. SOLUTIONS
2.4. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
2.4.1. Speakeasies
2.4.1.1. Illegal nightclubs that served alcohol
2.4.2. Bootleggers
2.4.2.1. Made money off of transporting and selling alcohol illegally
2.4.3. People making their own alcohol
2.4.4. Organized crime
2.4.4.1. Criminal gang violence fighting away from prohibition
2.4.5. SOULTION
2.4.5.1. When the 18th amendment failed the 21st amendment came into play
3. Working towards Health & Safety
3.1. PROBLEMS
3.1.1. Contained food
3.1.1.1. Food that was put on the shelves with uncertain ideas of how clean the preparation process was
3.1.2. Unsafe medications
3.1.2.1. Medications being made unsafely or with out the legal rights to make it
3.1.3. Lack of health care
3.2. REFORMERS
3.2.1. Upton Sinclair
3.2.1.1. Wrote "The Jungle" to expose the disgusting ways of factories making the food put on shelves
3.2.2. Alice Hamilton
3.2.2.1. Doctor who helped factory workers and worked to help the conditions of factories
3.2.3. Lillian Wald
3.2.3.1. Started the idea of a visiting nurse program
3.3. SOLUTIONS
3.3.1. Pure food and drug act
3.3.1.1. regulations banned the sale of impure foods and medicines.
3.3.2. Visiting Nurse Program
3.3.2.1. Nurses were sent to homes that were to sick to come to a hospital
4. Working towards suffrage
4.1. PROBLEM
4.1.1. Women did not have the right to vote
4.2. REFORMERS
4.2.1. Elizabeth Cady
4.2.1.1. Served as the first president for the N.A.W.S.A.
4.2.2. Susan B. Anthony
4.2.2.1. Also helped form N.A.W.S.A.
4.2.3. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
4.2.3.1. Focused on getting each state to allow women to vote
4.3. SOLUTION
4.3.1. 19th amendment
4.3.1.1. In 1920, women had full voting rights
5. Working towards worker rights
5.1. PROBLEMS
5.1.1. Low wages
5.1.1.1. Workers work for long hours for very little pay
5.1.2. Long work days
5.1.2.1. Long work hours in unsafe conditions
5.2. REFORMERS
5.2.1. Samuel Gompers
5.2.1.1. Was a famous Union leader, He fought for laws that would limit the work day to eight hours. In 1886 Gompers helped start the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
5.2.2. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
5.2.2.1. the group of people helped rework the idea of a working environment
5.3. SOLUTIONS
5.3.1. Labor Unions
5.3.1.1. Workers would join unions to ask for better pay and hours, safer worker conditions if employer said no they would all organize a strike
5.3.2. The American Federation of Labor
5.3.2.1. Helped change the working environment to be safer and more fair
6. Working towards conservation
6.1. PROBLEM
6.1.1. Loss of natural resources
6.2. REFORMERS
6.2.1. Theodore Roosevelt
6.2.1.1. Wanted to preserver land of Yosemite Valley which established the first wildlife refuge
6.2.2. Teddy Roosevelt
6.2.2.1. Pushed for federal laws that would obey laws regarding natural resources like not cutting down trees anywhere people wanted
6.3. SOLUTIONS
6.3.1. National parks
6.3.1.1. Keeping areas for nature only and allowing generations to enjoy it
6.3.2. Wild life refuges
6.3.2.1. Helping nature be able to grow without the worry of people
7. Working to end poverty
7.1. PROBLEMS
7.1.1. Crowded Tenements
7.1.2. Urban Slums
7.2. REFORMERS
7.2.1. Jacob Riis
7.2.1.1. Photographed tenement housing and the conditions they were living in, which shocked society. Exposed the living conditions and inspired people to help immigrants and improve their conditions.
7.2.2. Jane Addams
7.2.2.1. Helped people in a neighborhood of immigrants, she bought a house and turned it into a settlement house
7.3. SOLUTION
7.3.1. Settlement houses
7.3.1.1. People helped immigrants or low class families get out of tenements by sporting them through settlement houses.
8. Working to end Child Labor
8.1. PROBLEM
8.1.1. Children working in not well conditions
8.2. REFORMERS
8.2.1. Lewis Hine
8.2.1.1. He was a photographer that photographed what children were doing in factories and exposed the conditions
8.2.2. The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)
8.2.2.1. Worked to end all Child labor and worked to get support from the state to get kids in schools and not factories. Which they created compulsory education laws.
8.3. SOLUTIONS
8.3.1. NCLC
8.3.1.1. As seen above
9. Working to end corruption
9.1. PROBLEM
9.1.1. Political Machines
9.1.1.1. Ex. Political Machines; people that would give bribes and politicians would break rules to win elections. Most famous political machine was Tammany Hall
9.2. REFORMER
9.2.1. Robert M. La Follette
9.2.1.1. A progressive governor in WI which became the first state to establish a Direct Primary
9.3. SOLUTION
9.3.1. Direct Primary
9.3.1.1. Allowed voters to propose laws, allowed citizens to vote on proposed laws, and allowed people to vote a government official out of office