Social Reform Dbq

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A. One progressive economic reform prevalent during the early 1900s was that tariffs were lowered under Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
B. One progressive social reform prevalent during the early 1900s was that companies were no longer allowed to hire children to work in their companies. Any products made by a child under the age of fourteen would not sell over state lines. This gave companies an incentive for them to avoid hiring children.
C. The long-term effects of the social reform discussed above were that children were no longer allowed to work in dangerous factories and were to be protected. Even today, child labor without proper pay and appropriate hours is illegal in the United