TR Required labor unions to give Miners a 10hr. work day and increase their wages by 10%.
I've got you now!
I waaassn't even Dwinking
25,000 women helped fill factory jobs and serve as nurses in the army and the red cross. Later on Alice Paul and a group of women to protest at the white house which brought the problem of unequal rights for women to attention of congress which then led to the passing of the 19th amendment.
The Shame of the Cities
500 Thousand African Americans go north for better opportunity, but still were not equal without being treated poorly. Mexican Immigrants were only encourged to come to America as labors not to become citizens.
REFORM
Speakeasies were common during Prohibition due to the outlaw of alcohol. The Government wanted to do this as an experiment to attempt to improve social problems andto lower crime and taxes.
Lincoln Steffens documented the corruption in city government in his book, The Shame of the cities.
Government reform allowed for initative, referendum, and recall