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Helping improve day-to-day life.
Children need to have a chance to go to school rather than work in a factory.
Help people earn more money and spend their salaries wisely.
The Federal Reserve Bank was established to provide a safer, more flexible, and more stable banking system.
Attempted to make changes about what people viewed as "right and wrong."
Some people thought that people were poor because they made the wrong choice and drank alcohol. Some reformers wanted to prohibit (ban) drinking liquor.
Helped Americans gain more direct influence and control over their government.
Prior to the Progressive Era, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures. Progressives wanted the people to elect their U.S. senators.
Meat Packing plants used unsanitary (not clean) practices to increase profits. Reforms sought to clean up these unhealthy dangerous conditions.
People’s income was not taxed at this time, so Progressives proposed an income tax that would help fund government reform programs.
Many people thought it was wrong for young children to work in dangerous factories and they worked to make laws that prohibited (made illegal) using child labor.
Women did not have the right to vote and many groups sought to gain suffrage (the right to vote) for women.