Social Reform Dbq

This Era was called the Progressive movement, “The Progressive Era is unique in that this impulse spread to foster an all-encompassing mood and effort for reform”. Theodore Roosevelt was the president for half of the progressive era. Theodore Roosevelt came up many laws to help monitor business work environment and food safety, “the Meat Inspection Act was the beginning of federal regulation of the country’s meat, poultry, and egg products supply” (noto.com). This was big game changer it allows the government to regulate the meat companys, so people won’t get sick. Roosevelt wanted to get rid of the monopolies in America. Roosevelt broke more trusting busting than any other president. As you can see in the progressive era the government was regulating

The progressive leaders led the reform process of the nation’s industrial economy in the early years of the 20th century. Through the antirust acts, inspection acts, and regulations on trading, progressive reformers reshaped the way the economy ran. In a political cartoon by the Washington Post in 1907, President Roosevelt is on a dead raccoon with the words “bad trust” shaved into it. The political cartoon does over exaggerate the effectiveness of Roosevelt’s policies regarding trusts, but it does represent the way Roosevelt started the new regulation policies. In his second presidency, he started the “square deal.” This deal first passed Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act of 1906 which put regulations on the industry.

Theodore Roosevelt may be one of the most powerful presidents that attacked Trusts1 and corporations to make them just so that everyone could prosper. Thayer, a friend of Roosevelt wrote, ". . .he took the deepest personal satisfaction in fighting the rich and the soulless corporations. . ." (Thayer). This led into the 1920's a prosperous decade in which people received "new money." Theodore Roosevelt stressed more for people to be responsible than to be autonomous, or, in other words, to help others besides helping yourself. He was able to bring two separate groups together to make a better America. He brought the Trusts that wanted the government to stay away and then the other side

The Progressive reform benefited a lot of different types of people and groups. The groups that benefited the most were women in America and African Americans. Women in America benefited because after the Progressive Era had ended, which was roughly in the 1920’s, women rights were a lot different and better. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, (NAWSA), had a goal which was to pass woman suffrage rights at the state level. It also had another goal, which was to promote the right for women to vote in the United States. In 1919, the National American Woman Suffrage Association pushed toward for a constitutional amendment that would give the women of America the right to vote, and in 1920 it ended up working out and they won the ratification of the Nineteenth

Reformers had the desire to create moral order, and between the 1830s and 1840s, they established new institutions which were meant to heal the human being spiritually and morally. Institutions like prisons, orphanages, asylums and poorhouses started to proliferate. The common ideology was that of perfectionism, by which someone who was once considered incurable could now be set free. In fact, the belief was that people who entered an institution could be rehabilitated and eventually released back into society. However, with time, many institutions would prove to be crowded places where people were simply kept away from society. On the other hand, institutions like tax supported state schools were made available for all children. Horace Mann,

Theodore Roosevelt was a “trust buster” and strongly believed that monopolies should be broken up, and that competition was a good, healthy thing for the economy. Document 5 specifically talks about this. It is Teddy Roosevelt saying law should be made to “encourage corporations which do their honest duty” and “discriminate sharply against those organized in the spirit of mere greed”. The greedy few shouldn’t hold all the power. By creating laws to regulate businesses this also begs the question about how much the government should be involved in company’s affairs, which was a heated social topic. Roosevelt believed that the government should be the “referee” between business and the people. There also was the important establishment of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve System was essential the “banker’s bank”, and was used to regulate the money supply and stimulate the economy. The progressives also introduced the Progressive Income Tax, or 16th amendment. This allowed Congress to have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. The graduated income tax takes a higher percentage in tax as the amount of income increases. All these reforms helped stimulate the economy and helped the U.S. get rid of some of its

The Progressive-Era’s reform efforts were conducted by the Progressives who were mainly middle-class, passionately religious, men and women who had extra time, money, and resources to dedicate to the reform efforts (Schultz, 2014). Women and followers of the Social Gospel movement were the two main groups behind the reform. Progressive reformers set out to end corruption in politics, improve lives of all humans, and boost governments intervention to safeguard citizens. The Social Gospel Movement was huge in the fight against prostitution, trying to end poverty, and achieving social justice. Two main leaders were Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch who hit hard opposition in their direction of a Jesus-inspired kindness reform from the

During the period of 1984 to 1989 under section 29(a) of the Social Aid Regulation, the Quebec government provided those who were single, unemployed, and under the age of 30 with only $170 per month in social assistance, amounting to merely one third of its regular benefits. Full time benefits were only available to those over the age of 30 while benefits for those 30 and under were conditioned on the participation of government employability programs. The objective of the Social Aid Regulation was to encourage youth to either find work or attend school. Louise Gosselin was living in Quebec, was under 30 and was unable to find work or go to school. She was therefore in the unfortunate position of having scarce financial resources. She was homeless periodically, lived in an unheated apartment for a winter and when she rented a room at a boarding house it left her no money for food. As a result Louise Gosselin was subjected to selling herself. Gosselin brought a class action lawsuit against the Quebec government challenging the 1984 social assistance scheme on behalf of all welfare recipients under the age of 30 for violation of section 15 equality rights and section 7 security rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She also challenged social rights in section 45 of the Quebec Chart. Gosselin ordered that the Quebec government reimburse all affected welfare recipients for the difference between what they actually received and what they would have received had they

In 1729, Jonathan Swift's country, Ireland, was being controlled predominantly by England. This being the case, I do not believe this proposal to be a serious one, or at least fully. Jonathan is whole heartedly devoted to bring awareness to the current plight that Ireland is going through, this being the full domination by England. Ireland, for all intents and purposes, is already selling their children to England. This is not to be taken literally, but metaphorically in the way that they are already giving everything to England and might as well go even further by selling their own children as food to the "rich", in this case the "rich" or "upper class" being England. Jonathan Swift is known for attempting to "fix" the problems in Ireland, or at least improve the conditions in which everyone is living.

The coalmines owners took the families to get as much coal as possible, they worked for 12 hours / 6 days a week. However, they were paid depending on how much they produced. Regardless of how many hours the miners worked they were salaried according to how much they were producing. Big families that worked in the coalmines lived in two rooms. Living conditions were bad for the miners. Accidents and injures happened constantly. It was risky to work in the coalmines. There was no light underground. Underground mines were very dark. Some of the underground roadways were narrow therefore owners used small children to pull or push large coal baskets (Working conditions in the 19th century mines, n.d). Instead of making the tight roadways wider, owners used children to pass coal bags through it. Children under age of five worked for 2 pennies a day, which was very dangerous. Children were in danger due to their work in the coalmines. 58 deaths including children at age of 13 or younger, out of total of 349 deaths in one year occurred in one coalmine. (Trueman, 2015). In one year 16% of deaths happened in one coal mine. In the US, more than 100,000 coal worker died because of accidents.(Environmental impact of the coal industry, n.d). Coal mines accidents killed a lot of people in the US. Coal production affected people’s lives negatively.

After I watched The Ascent of money, it impressed me and I interested in episode 4 “Risky business”. It is about modern system of insurance which can avoid risks for people. Moreover, the insurance provided the social welfare system base that national government use financial funds to buy insurance for public. The social welfare system is very contradictory. On the one hand, the social welfare system ensures the citizen can work better and live better. On the other hand, sometimes because they don’t have risks in life, so they may be lazy or extreme. And not only will cause individual problem, but also social problem. On the video, it said that Japan has the most perfect social welfare system

The NLS also has the First Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the Employment and Condition of Children in Mines and Manufactories 1842. Elgin: 1921 This report provides a fascinating window into the working conditions which very young children were subject to in order to help support their families when a father died or was injured.

Despite Victorian England being an era of great prosperity and industrialization, the Victorians were stubborn to accept medical advancements in cleanliness and health. In fact, the Victorians were so set on industrialization that child labor was abundant in many of the lower and middle classes. Children from the age of twelve to fourteen would begin their work in the mines where they would have to weave their way through narrow mine shafts with little illumination. By the age of forty, most of these miners would contract lung disease and arthritis from the result of their long eleven to twelve hour days. Yet, mining wasn’t the beginning, the Victorian factories were also notorious

Hong Kong and England have an inseparable relationship with each other. Starting from 1842 to 1997, Hong Kong was one of the colonies under British Empire. The 156 years relationship ended when United Kingdom transferred Hong Kong’s sovereignty to the China government on 1st July 1997. In this period, British government controlled Hong Kong Education and Housing policies but those policies are not as same as England. After the regime shifted to China, Hong Kong government had changed from the old policies. In the project, I will mainly focus on the comparison of the policies after 1997. In the first part, I will introduce the education policy in Hong Kong and England. The following part is the introduction of the housing policy in Hong

In 2011, after decades of authoritarian rule, Myanmar has opened up to the outside world again and undertaken a series of socio-economic and legislative reforms under the new civilian government. Since then, many domestic civil organisations, international non-governmental organisations (NGO) and aid agencies have increased their presence and activities inside the country. The most unprecedented move was in 2013 when the government allowed for the first time to carefully reconsider on the state of civil society in Myanmar and revoked a restrictive law that was enforced during the military rule (Morgan, 2015). The government started drafting the Organisation Registration Law in 2013 and allowed the representatives of the civil society to review the draft law and critique over it (ICNL, 2014).