Government Response and Labor
(How did government reforms and the labor movement succeed and fail to bring about more justice?)

QCC objectives for the 5th and 9th grades

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(5.11) Describes how social, political and economic reforms during the Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson presidencies affected Americans (e.g. women, children, American Indians, and African Americans)

- the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Amendments
-child labor, and
-labor unions. (6)

Compare similar developments in other industrial countries at the time. For example, England passed environmental laws to improve the air quality.

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