Progressive era
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Reactions to Industrialism
The efforts of industrial workers in the late 1800s helped boost the American economy.
Yet factory owners often treated their workers poorly, imposing low wages,
long hours, and poor working conditions.
American industry relied on the labor of whole families, including children, who often worked longer hours than
adults..
Workers formed labor unions to improve working conditions and wages.
Collective Bargaining
Workers and employers attempt to work out agreements.
Failed negotiations led often to strikes and sometimes to violence.
Haymarket Riot
Progressive Reform
Progressives tackled a variety of problems.
They worked to:
improve living and working conditions in cities
clean up state and local government
advance the rights of women and minorities.
Jane Addams
cofounder of Hull House, Chicago
worked to fix up poor city neighborhoods
tried to improve tenement housing
designed sanitation and garbage collection
Fought against child labor
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Worked toward gaining rights and equality for African Americans
Women’s rights
Women still worked toward their right to vote.
Many social reforms
Many advantages and many disadvantages.