What were taft's main political problems? a) he had trouble balancing the progressive and conservative wings of his party. b) he was obese and people didn't take him seriously because of his weight. c) teddy roosevelt was just hanging around and eventually started openly clashing with taft on policy matters, culminating in tr trying to unseat taft in 1912. d) all of these

answer: in 1900, there were no "workplace safety laws"!

explanation: at the beginning of this century, workers in the united states faced remarkably high health and safety risks on the job.

a century ago in 1900 about three hundred out of every one hundred thousand miners were killed on the job each year.

[industria] developments occurred within a legal and regulatory climate that diminished employer’s interest in safety. as a result, americans developed production methods that were both highly productive and often very dangerous.