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- This allowed Japanese to save face by voluntarily restricting immigration to the United States.
- Settlement houses, which began in England, spread in the United States. By 1893, the needs of poor urban neighborhoods that had motivated reformer Jane Adams to open Hull House in Chicago.
- Roosevelt smoothed over the incident and negotiated the Gentlemen's Agreement in 1907.
- Good relations with Japan were jeopardized by California's blatantly racist, segregated public schools for Asians.
- As a result from the Triangle tragedy, New York passed thirty-eight new laws that regulated and changed labor conditions.
- In 1909, women employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City went on strike to protest low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
- By February of 1910, the WTUL made enormous contributions to the strike. However, they failed to fundamentally change conditions for women workers, as the tragic Triangle fire dramatized in 1911, a little over a year after the strike ended.
- An element of nativism ran through the movement of prohibition, as it did in a number of progressive reforms. Progressives campaigned to enforce the Sunday closing of taverns, stores, and other commercial establishments and pushed for state legislation to outlaw the sale of liquor. By 1912, seven states were dry .
- Reformers pointed to links between drinking, prostitution, wife and child abuse, unemployment and industrial accidents.
- The Anti-Saloon League, formed in 1895 under the leadership of Protestant clergy, added to the efforts of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in campaigning to end the sale of liquor.
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