restrict immigration from southern Europe.

establish full time fire departments.

protect the safety of workers.

improve the conditions for tenement dwellers.

freedmen immediately after the Civil War.

farmers in the 1880s and 1890s.

urban poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Japanese and Chinese laborers in the late 1800s.

the government supported business owners.

most workers refused to take part in the strike.

the Supreme Court ruled both strikes were illegal.

factory owners hired children to replace the strikers.

helping the nation adapt to the social and economic changes resulting from industrialization.

expanding the civil rights of minorities.

healing the split caused by the Civil War.

controlling the swings in the business cycle.

protect the nation’s natural resources.

improve conditions for recent immigrants to the United.

advance the growth of big business.

promote the general welfare of the American public.

Journalists

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progressives

ignore antitrust laws

conserve natural resources

limit the power of monopolies

eliminate foreign ownership of United States corporations

enact stronger prohibition laws.

support the national conservation movement.

establish a system for meat inspection.

legalize strikes and boycotts by labor unions.

increased government regulation of business

increased restrictions on presidential powers

decreased influence of the media on public policy

reduced government spending for social programs

It facilitated numerous business mergers.

It established guidelines for price discrimination.

It empowered organizations to address trade violations.

It prevented the formation of new business monopolies.