HIST 2P16 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Media Culture, Income Tax
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The progressive impulse: a whole range of people participating in a varying range of reform activities. Many of which did lap but some did not. Knights of labour conducted parades and assemblies to obtain shorter work days and weeks using the 14th amendment. Became a political party in order to get their ideas done. In the presidential election, they won several states. Younger generation of immigrants much more eager to become americanized. Already migrated immigrants were weary about now immigrants coming in and stealing their job and pushing their advancement back. Chinese immigrants were rumoured ot be contracted workers and then did not need to be employed fairly. It was declared asians could not become citizens. People of middle and upper class backgrounds. Protective legislation for women who worked in factories. Worried about exposing to unhealthy conditions in a workplace and the association with reproducing. Struggle with these laws in courts and states.
