Progressives Of The 1920's

Change in inevitable. Change often takes time, but it will happen. The Progressives of the 1890s through the 1920 were people in the United States of America that pushed change and reform to make life better. They wanted to bring change and reform to the United States by creating acts and fixing problems through the government. Progressives were successful in bringing reform at the federal level with the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Keating-Owen act of 1916. The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 was successful at the federal level for the Progressives. One of the main goals of Progressivism was to take down trusts and monopolies, which would make the market fair for all companies. An act was needed to

Another main goal of the Progressives was to help and protect the well-being of citizens of the United States that were laborers and lived in the slums of cities. One way the government can help them was by providing them some relief from the dangerous food that was being produced at factories. The factories were often filthy and unsafe, with one reporter going into a factory and writing about the conditions, “we saw meat shoveled from filthy wooden floors, pilked on tables rarely washed, pushed from room to room in rotten box carts, in all of which processes it was in the way of gathering dirt, splinters, floor filth, and the expectoration of tuberculosis and other diseased workers” (The Neill-Reynolds Report). This report shows the horrible conditions of the factories that were producing food for the public. This food was often unsafe and not labeled correctly. In response, the Progressives passed the FDC Act to try and regulate the food and other products coming from the factories to protect the well-being of the citizens. Protecting the citizens of the United States is one of their main goals, which they were successful at helping to protect them by passing the FDC Act at the federal

As stated before, a main goal of the Progressives was to help the well-being of laborers and citizens of the United States. One way the Progressives wanted to help was by eliminating child labor, which led to the creation of the Keating-Owen Act from 1916, “An act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes” (Keating-Owen Child Labor Act). This act brought around change with trying to fix the problem of child labor in the United States. One of the main goals of the Progressives was to make life better for the citizens of the United States, which was accomplished by taking children out of factories and mines. The places the children worked were very dangerous, and taking the children out of those work situations made life a lot better and safer for them. This shows success because the Progressives passed an act to try and stop the child labor in the country, and make the lives of those children