1. Health & Safety
1.1. Reformers
1.1.1. Upton Sinclair-Wrote a book called the jungle exposing sanitation and safety in meat packing plants exposing them
1.1.2. Alice Hamilton- Was a doctor who helped factory workers and taught factory owners safety and sanitation
1.1.3. Lillian Wald- Made the idea of traveling nurses so nurses came to patients at work,school and at there homes to be treated
1.2. Solutions
1.2.1. Pure food and drug act-banned the sale of impure foods and medicines
1.3. Problems
1.3.1. Did not know if you were eating contaimed foods or safe medicines-caused sicknesses and disease
1.3.2. Dirty food packing and medicine plants with no sanitation
2. Workers rights
2.1. Reformers
2.1.1. Samuel Gompers- Fought for the law that the work day would be limited to 8 hours
2.1.2. Afl- Helped make the work day eight hours and increase wages for American workers
2.2. Solutions
2.2.1. Labor unions- Workers working together to make there job hours better,pay better and working conditions better for them
2.2.2. Going on Strike-Not going to work until there pay,hours and working conditions were better, this happened after labor unions
2.3. Problems-Low wages and Long work days for American Workers
3. Suffrage
3.1. Reformers
3.1.1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3.1.1.1. Served as the NAWSA first president
3.1.2. Susan S. Anthony
3.1.2.1. Also became president and worked on every state allowing women to vote
3.2. Solutions
3.2.1. they got the 19th amendment which gave all women voting rights
3.2.2. NAWSA- went around states trying to give women the rights to vote by protesting
3.3. Problems
3.3.1. Women were in a suffrage and were not allowed to vote
4. Prohibition
4.1. Reformers
4.1.1. Carrie Nation
4.1.1.1. Took hatchets to saloons to show that there is evil in alcohol
4.1.2. Mary Hunt
4.1.2.1. Led the women's christian temperance union with trying to ban sales of alcohol and that it brings evil to the world
4.2. Solutions
4.2.1. 21st amendment which repealed prohibition
4.3. Problems
4.3.1. Illegal night clubs for people who wanted alcohol led by Al Capone Called speakeasies.
4.3.2. Bootleggers who made money from transporting and selling the illegal alcohol
5. Poverty
5.1. Reformers
5.1.1. Jacob Riis- Photographed Urban slums to expose poor immigrant living conditions
5.1.2. Jane Addams- Created Hull house for temporary
5.2. Solutions
5.2.1. Hull House
5.3. Problems
5.3.1. Could not afford houses or apartments and lived in crowded tenants
6. Corruption
6.1. Reformers
6.1.1. William S-U'ren:1. Initiatives allowed voters to propose laws,2.Referendums allowed citizens to vote on proposed laws, and 3. Recalls allowed people to vote a government official out of office.
6.1.2. William M. Tweed- Stole enormous amounts of money from the city
6.2. Solutions
6.2.1. They gave voters more control of the government
6.3. Problems
6.3.1. Federal and local governments became corrupt
7. Child labor
7.1. Reformers
7.1.1. Lewis Hine-Took photos of the child labor and horrible working conditions to help the children
7.1.2. NCLC-Dedicated to ending all child labor
7.2. Solutions
7.2.1. Education laws for kids having to attend school and exposing big buisnesses of child labor
7.3. Problem
7.3.1. Businesses using children for little to no pay and working in bad working conditions with no education
8. Racism
8.1. Reformers
8.1.1. Ida B. Wells- Fought against black lynching in the south and was a journalist
8.1.2. Booker T. Washington- Early worker to achieve equality for black race
8.1.3. W.E.B. Dubois- Started the association N-A-A-C-P ending discrimination against africqn americans
8.2. Solution
8.2.1. Tuskegee Institute-School helped African Americans learn trades and gain economic strength
8.3. Problem
8.3.1. Slavery
8.3.2. Jim Crow Laws(with Segregation)
9. Conservation
9.1. Reformers
9.1.1. Theodore Roosevelt-Controlling how Americas Natural resources were used
9.1.2. Teddy Roosevelt-Forcing companies to obey laws Regarding the use of natural resources
9.2. Solution
9.2.1. Making more national parks and monuments for viewing and not to take use of natural resources from these parts in America
9.3. Problems
9.3.1. Loss of Natural Resources