Changes

* [[Workers' compensation]], allowing workers injured on the job to receive a fixed payment in compensation for their injuries and related expenses rather than forcing them to go to court against their employers, which at the time was extremely difficult and had little realistic chance of success

* [[Workers' compensation]], allowing workers injured on the job to receive a fixed payment in compensation for their injuries and related expenses rather than forcing them to go to court against their employers, which at the time was extremely difficult and had little realistic chance of success

* State regulation of [[railroads]] in addition to the federal regulation imposed by the [[Interstate Commerce Commission]]

* State regulation of [[railroads]] in addition to the federal regulation imposed by the [[Interstate Commerce Commission]]

* Direct election of [[United States Senate|United States Senators]] as opposed to the original method of their selection by the state [[legislature]]s, eventually ratified as the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].

* Direct election of [[United States Senate|United States Senators]] as opposed to the original method of their selection by the state [[legislature]]s, eventually ratified as the [[Seventeenth Amendment]].

* "Progressive" taxation, where the wealthier pay a higher rate of [[tax]] than the less-affluent, made possible on the federal level in part by the adoption of the [[Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]]

* "Progressive" taxation, where the wealthier pay a higher rate of [[tax]] than the less-affluent, made possible on the federal level in part by the adoption of the [[Sixteenth Amendment]]

Adoption of these reforms marked the high point of the [[Progressive Era]].

Adoption of these reforms marked the high point of the [[Progressive Era]].