Farmers In The 1890-1920's

In the 1890-1920 farmers faced falling prices. Many farmers faced debt and foreclosure. Works faced tactics that led to defeat. That’s just a few things that lead to these other issues I’m going to talk about throughout these next few paragraphs. I’m going to talk about how they happened and how they changed. Then i’ll explain how the change was made.

Political Corruptions, The progressive movement and reformers aimed to fix corruption in government and business. Then there are “ political boss “ they controlled jobs and services; often dishonest and corrupt. For example William M. Tweed- “ Boss Tweed “, he collected millions of dollars in illegal payments and eventually was convicted and sentenced to prison.

The 16th Amendment changed this

Which changed when the Sherman Antitrust Act and Clayton Antitrust Act came along. The Sherman Antitrust Act came out in the 1890s. It’s basically a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law or " competition law " passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, was a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their

Lack of effective government regulation led to unsafe and unhealthy work sites. In the late nineteenth century more industrial accidents occurred in the United States than in any other industrial country. Rarely did an employer offer payment if a worker was hurt or killed on the job. As industries consolidated at the turn of the century factories grew larger and more dangerous. By 1900 industrial accidents killed thirty-five thousand workers each year and maimed five hundred thousand others, and the numbers continued to rise. Working conditions changed during the Progressive era several states passed legislation helpful to labor, such as laws establishing a minimum wage for women, maximum work hours, and workmen's compensation, and abolishing child labor and convict leasing. Groups such as the National Child Labor Committee, the Woman's Trade Union League, and the National Consumers League spearheaded the drives for many of these measures. Ironically, organized labor opposed minimum-wage laws for women because it preferred to win such measures through collective bargaining or strikes rather than through