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Harsh Working Conditions
-women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to work,often in the mills or mines.
-in the 19th century there was no restriction on the age of workers,this led to children as young as 8 or 9 being required to work 12 or more hours a day.
-working conditions were often unsanitary and the work was dangerous.
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Assassination Of James Garfield
Assassin- Charles J Guiteau
Why- He thought God had told to shoot the president
- He had written a speech her garfieldthat helped him win the presidential election
-Formulated the delusion that the speech was a key factor in the presidents victory
-Asked to be rewarded with a consulship(chairman of the senate) in paris
Result- Doctors killed the president because they didnt wash their hands.
-This helped create the Pendleton act -
The Pendleton Act
- patronage system: is a practice after winning an election gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends & realities.
- merit system: is the process of promoting & hiring government employees base on their ability to perform & not base on political connections. -pendleton act was created in response to pres. garfield's assassination & civil service commision was created to back up the new acts and or put into action
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The interstate commerce act
-Addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business, the act became law with the support of both major political parties and pressure groups from all regions of the country the interstate commerce commission was created, by the act to entrance these regulation and investigated allegations of fraud deception and discrimination gov. this was the 1st law where government interfered with big business. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
-Supreme court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctrine.
-it stemmed from an 1892 incident in which african-american train passenger homer plessy refused to sit in a jim crow car.
-segregation to become a law in the u.s jim crow laws, which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against african-americans. spread across the u.s -
The Populist movement
was a revolt by farmers in the south and midwest against the Demo and Rep parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties.
For over a decade farmers were suff. from crop failures,falling prices,poor marketing,and lack of credit facilities.
The key platform of the populist party where unlimited coinage of silver to raise for prices and make loan repayment easier,direct election of senators instead of by state legislatures graduated income tax -
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Peoples party
populists were convinced that rich industrialist and bankers had a strangle hold on government like gragners before them. populists wanted government to have a large role ending oppression,injustice,and poverty.the populist elected five senators and presidential candidate jerome kerby he recieved 44 president of the votes in the 1896 election. populist platform-unlimited coinage of silver direct elections pf senators work day -
Red Record
Author- Ida B. Wells
Central Topic- Informing Northeners that lynching in the U.S was occuring down in the south
Effect- African Americans moved to new york
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The klondike Gold Rush
- was a migration by an estimate 100,00 set but only 30,000 arrived to the Klondike region of the Yukon in the Northern western Canada between 1896 and 1889 -around 4,000 found gold, many gave up due to the difficulties of the journey and returned home some were not able to survive the extreme temperatures and died.
- the greatest economic impact prospectors passed through settlements and the money from supplies they purchased boosted the economy considerably
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Pure Food & Drug act
-Reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods and medicines, such as coca-cola originally having cocaine in it
- the gov then began enforcing the production & distribution of consumer products by founding the food & drug admin (FDA)
- products were later required to label the harmful ingredients and would later on remove them. -
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Muckraker Jeurlism
Muckraker- one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders
Muckrakers exposed people with unsafe working conditions, political corruption and social injustice
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NAACP
the mission of the national association for the advancement of the colony ppl is to ensure to political ed, social eco, equality of rights of all person and to eliminate discrimination.the cause was to discuss the racial justice for african americansthe effect led the legal rights to overturn the justice pol although they had a few cases over the yrs.women of the wrkng classes would usually be expected to go out to work often in the mills or mines.children worked age 8/9 12hrs/day. dangerous.