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Progressive Era
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- Laws were passed to establish the 8-hour workday, implement workplace safety regulations, and significantly restrict child labor (such as the Keating-Owen Act of 1916).
- Labor unions like the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and fierce crusaders like Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and Lewis Hine ((whose photographs of child labor shocked the public into demanding change).Lewis Hine and Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, and fierce crusaders like American Federation of Labor (AFL)Labor unions like the
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- Labor unions, muckrakers, and social reformers fought corporate greed. Activists like Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and photographer Lewis Hine exposed child labor to force government action.
- We need to expose these factories! The public has no idea what is happening inside.
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- Thanks to the relentless work of activists and muckrakers, the government was forced to step in. This era successfully brought about the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage), the 18th Amendment (Prohibition), strict tenement housing codes, and new voting laws that returned power to the citizens.
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