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  • Effects of Social Progressivism
    Living Conditions
    • Immigrants gain access to child care and English classes.
    • Municipal governments are pressured to improve sanitation and tenement safety.
    • Minority groups organize, create self-help agencies, and fight discrimination.
    • Immigrants are encouraged to become “Americanized.”
    • Laws regulate safety of foods and medicine.
    Working Conditions
    • City and state laws improve workplace safety.
    • Workers’ compensation laws provide for payments to injured workers.
    • Laws limit workday hours; Supreme Court upholds limits for women but not for men.
    • State and federal governments were urged to adopt minimum wage and make other reforms.
    • Strike fund aids workers who reject unsafe working conditions.
    • Minority job seekers gain access to more jobs.
    Children
    • State and federal laws ban child labor; Supreme Court overturns federal ban.
    • Compulsory-education laws require children to attend school.
    • Poor children gain access to nursery schools and kindergartens.
  • Progressive Organizations That Worked for Rights
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  • Municipal Reforms
    Government Reforms Election Reforms
    • Commission form of government
    • City managers
    • Trained administrators
    • City-owned public utilities
    • Direct primary
    • Initiative
    • Referendum
    • Recall

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Table of Contents

Prentice Hall: United States History CHAPTER 1 Many Cultures Meet (Prehistory–1550) CHAPTER 2 Europeans Establish Colonies (1492–1752) CHAPTER 3 The American Colonies Take Shape (1607–1765) CHAPTER 4 The American Revolution (1765–1783) CHAPTER 5 Creating the Constitution (1781–1789) CHAPTER 6 The New Republic (1789–1816) CHAPTER 7 Nationalism and Sectionalism (1812–1855) CHAPTER 8 Religion and Reform (1812–1860) CHAPTER 9 Manifest Destiny (1800–1850) CHAPTER 10 The Union in Crisis (1846–1861) CHAPTER 11 The Civil War (1861–1865) CHAPTER 12 The Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) CHAPTER 13 The Triumph of Industry (1865–1914) CHAPTER 14 Immigration and Urbanization (1865–1914) CHAPTER 15 The South and West Transformed (1865–1900) CHAPTER 16 Issues of the Gilded Age (1877–1900) CHAPTER 17 The Progressive Era (1890–1920) CHAPTER 18 An Emerging World Power (1890–1917) CHAPTER 19 World War I and Beyond (1914–1920) CHAPTER 20 The Twenties (1919–1929) CHAPTER 21 The Great Depression (1928–1932) CHAPTER 22 The New Deal (1932–1941) CHAPTER 23 The Coming of War (1931–1942) CHAPTER 24 World War II (1941–1945) CHAPTER 25 The Cold War (1945–1960) CHAPTER 26 Postwar Confidence and Anxiety (1945–1960) CHAPTER 27 The Civil Rights Movement (1945–1975) CHAPTER 28 The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1960–1968) CHAPTER 29 The Vietnam War Era (1954–1975) CHAPTER 30 An Era of Protest and Change (1960–1980) CHAPTER 31 A Crisis in Confidence (1968–1980) CHAPTER 32 The Conservative Resurgence (1980–1993) CHAPTER 33 Into a New Century (1992–Today) Reflections: Enduring Issues Five Themes of Geography Profile of the Fifty States Atlas Presidents of the United States Economics Handbook Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court Documents of Our Nation English and Spanish Glossary Index Acknowledgments