The living conditions were awful, and the employer can make you work for fewer wages. The employer can as well make you work more hours.Women and children were working. Just because the factories were booming doesn't mean the living conditions were right.Everyone was living close together and more diseases developed.
too much government control
A major negative effect of the Progressive era was too much government control which led to political corruption in both the state and national level. Powerful politicians became overpowering to the interest of the public resulting in ineffective government
Horace Mann invented school and what is today the United States' modern school system. Horace was born in 1796 in Massachusetts and became the Secretary of Education in Massachusettes where he championed an organized and set curriculum of core knowledge for each student.
