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☆☆☆☆☆Many progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called political machines.
Native American reservations were divided into smaller plots.
sell their land
The people in steerage were at the bottom of the ship and below water level. There were no windows, no rooms, and very little of anything else. The ships in the 1900's divided decks according to classes of people. The decks were separated with locked gates and the upper deck people who paid the most for passage never met or saw the people on the other decks. The immigrants below were locked in so they couldn't have access to the upper decks. They were considered the poorest dirtiest people on the ship so we're sold the worse accommodations.
Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives." He exposed the lives of the many poor Americans living in the slums of the city. These treachers include tenements in which many people crammed together to live in, hot beds which were the poorly made mattresses that they slept in, called hot beds because one person would go to work (usually in a factory) while the other slept and then they would rotate, so the beds would always be warm, and there were often no windows or it was one or two rooms with bunks and a makeshift stove in the middle of the room. Children would be playing in the dirty streets and illness was easily spread.
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
Jewish Americans, also the Asian Americans
Pinchot's ideas inspired government policy that forests be protected for public use.
Congress established the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) in 1914.
Asian Americans put their land in their children names
to eliminate abuses by the railroads.
