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  • Labor Issues
  • Gender and class strugglesLow wages and dangerous working conditions The Triangle FireChild Labor
  • The WTUL (Women's Trade Union League) was established for organizing unions among female workers to promote representation and safety.Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr formed Hull House to advocate for ending Child labor.FDR's New Deal Legislation helped promote safety and regulation while curbing child labor.
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  • Women's Rights 
  • Unsafe working conditionsSocial inequality and inability to vote Abusive husbands and sexual assault
  • WTLU Mobilized to improve safety for female workers by organizing movements.Susan B. Anthony and Cady Stanton Pioneered Woman's Suffrage, leading to the addition of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) Emphasized the financial and physical consequences of drunken husbands.
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  • Muckraking/Crusaders 
  • Used to expose corruption and illegal practice in corporations The Jungle (1906) uncovered deplorable conditions in Meatpacking plantsExposed poisons in Patented Medicines 
  • Muckraking often complicated and swayed U.S. elections, as crusaders would relentlessly target candidates. Because of 'The Jungle,' Roosevelt insisted on the Pure food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection act of 1906.
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