Progressive Era
The early 20th century was an era of progressive reform in America. The Progressive Era was a time when people started to speak out and join ways to make their own laws. These people called themselves progressives, they worked together to improve human equality. The progressives wanted all American citizens to join their group and fight to improve social conditions. They were mainly considered journalists, writers, and even illustrators. There main focus was on reforming the United States in many ways such as, unsanitary living conditions, harsh practices from businesses, and revealing political corruption. The Progressive Era was indeed successful and changed America forever.
The progressives would discover ways to show the world the cruelty that would occur behind the doors. A title called …show more content…
The hardworking men were getting cruel treatment and low pay. They would work for more than half the day with no beneficial rewards whatsoever. There was no such thing as minimum wage back in the Gilded Age so the progressives knew their was a change to be made. They began to focus more on this problem and show the American people some truth behind this. After the progressives had some say on it, the government began to put in safety conditions, a minimum wage was made, and less hours were assigned (“The Progressive Era”). This shows how the progressives were truly successful in enforcing new laws.
With all the problems going around in this era, you would expect sanitary to not be included but infact was a major problem. Upton Sinclair was the progressive who did his research on unsanitary procedures in the industry. He was known for writing a book titled The Jungle for his realistic descriptions and views. In this book he describes the rotten and disgusting meat that was being produced, This shocked the public eye and got led to the federal food
The early 20th century was an era of progressive reform in America. The Progressive Era was a time when people started to speak out and join ways to make their own laws. These people called themselves progressives, they worked together to improve human equality. The progressives wanted all American citizens to join their group and fight to improve social conditions. They were mainly considered journalists, writers, and even illustrators. There main focus was on reforming the United States in many ways such as, unsanitary living conditions, harsh practices from businesses, and revealing political corruption. The Progressive Era was indeed successful and changed America forever.
The progressives would discover ways to show the world the cruelty that would occur behind the doors. A title called …show more content…
The hardworking men were getting cruel treatment and low pay. They would work for more than half the day with no beneficial rewards whatsoever. There was no such thing as minimum wage back in the Gilded Age so the progressives knew their was a change to be made. They began to focus more on this problem and show the American people some truth behind this. After the progressives had some say on it, the government began to put in safety conditions, a minimum wage was made, and less hours were assigned (“The Progressive Era”). This shows how the progressives were truly successful in enforcing new laws.
With all the problems going around in this era, you would expect sanitary to not be included but infact was a major problem. Upton Sinclair was the progressive who did his research on unsanitary procedures in the industry. He was known for writing a book titled The Jungle for his realistic descriptions and views. In this book he describes the rotten and disgusting meat that was being produced, This shocked the public eye and got led to the federal food