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SOCIAL STUDIES ** CHAPTER 4 REVIEW MIDTERM PRACTICE **

Progressives changed society between 1909-1920 with the following reforms:

2- __**Conservation**__ or the protection of nature and its resources 3- Federal income tax 4-Senators elected by people rather than state legislatures 5-Manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol prohited-18th Amendment 6-Women's suffrage-Granted women the right to vote-19th Amendment 7-LABOR REFORM: Child labor, Women's labor, Workplace conditions Passage of laws improving factory safety standards Passage of laws to guarantee a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job. 8-Monopolies, or total ownership of a product or service. The Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
 * 1- __Pure Food and Drug Act__**- This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs

Many reformers blamed social problems such as family violence and criminal behavior on a number of factors, including urbanization and immigration. They also blamed problems on alcohol consumption. This problem let to the Temperance movement.

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