Advocates for social justice can attest to the fact that numerous reforms has been in place to aid people of the lower class. For example, Woodrow Wilson strengthen the antitrust act by replacing Sherman Act with Clayton Antitrust Act. Which aimed to get rid of monopolies and open up more capitalism. Also, Wilson established the Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913 which help Americans with lower tariff causing items to be more affordable. Wilson was also a supporter of aiding farmers, worker’s compensation, and child labor laws. All these news Act made the bureaucracy more progressive and modern for the time. The incoming amounts of immigrants and the rise of cities along America gave some concern to progressive who advocated for social control.
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For example, Woodrow Wilson has acted upon so many reform, but since he is a southern he permitted segregation. Majority of the African Americans stayed in the South doing agriculture work. They faced hate through literature. For example, Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman calls African American as “half child, half animal….”. In addition, their ability to vote is being denied over difficult exams, fees, and pure racism. Through the efforts of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois more Africans are becoming more educated. With the education, the NAACP was formed to lead struggle to overturn legal and economic barriers to equal opportunity.
The impacts of the progressive reform have stood through time. For example, the U.S. Forest Service founded by Roosevelt and other more modern agency such as the EPA serve the purpose to protect nature. The FTC, the Federal Reserve, and the FDA still stand to help America function. Most similar to current day and the progressive era are the current social reforms and more aid to Planned Parenthood for necessities such as Birth Control. Current issues such as Health care, wage laws, housing are still issue that have been argued since the 20th
For example, Woodrow Wilson has acted upon so many reform, but since he is a southern he permitted segregation. Majority of the African Americans stayed in the South doing agriculture work. They faced hate through literature. For example, Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman calls African American as “half child, half animal….”. In addition, their ability to vote is being denied over difficult exams, fees, and pure racism. Through the efforts of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois more Africans are becoming more educated. With the education, the NAACP was formed to lead struggle to overturn legal and economic barriers to equal opportunity.
The impacts of the progressive reform have stood through time. For example, the U.S. Forest Service founded by Roosevelt and other more modern agency such as the EPA serve the purpose to protect nature. The FTC, the Federal Reserve, and the FDA still stand to help America function. Most similar to current day and the progressive era are the current social reforms and more aid to Planned Parenthood for necessities such as Birth Control. Current issues such as Health care, wage laws, housing are still issue that have been argued since the 20th