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☆☆☆☆☆Lincoln Austin Steffens was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century and author of "The Shame of the Cities."
Financial panics
Bankruptcies
Boom and bust economy
finacial panics
As a dangerous anarchist movementAmericans seen labor unions as a threat. This was broken up and some got killed.
A common condition in rapidly growing cities were that apartment buildings were being located near polluting factories.
lack of windows
many people worked all the time and made barely enough to survive
Boy Scouts were founded first.
That government usually sided with business owners
There really was no such thing as "bonanza ranches" or "bonanza ranchers." There is such a thing as bonanza farms, but not ranches.
Direct election of senators
Efficiency progressives believe that cities should be ran by the government.
The political goal of farmers was lower prices for grain storage.
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
The employer had chained locked the doors and the women couldn't get out.
Promoted laws against child labor (apex)
