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Assassination of james garfield
assassin-charles j. guiteau
why
-he thought god had told him to shoot the president
-he had written a speech for garfield that helped him win the presidential election
-formulated the delusion that the speech was a key factor in the presidents victory
-asked to be rewarded w a consulship(chairman of the senate ) in paris
result
-doctors killed the president because they didnt wash their hands
-this helped create pendleton act -
the interstate commerce act of 1887
the causes for the law was to regulate the railroad industry particulary its monopolistics practices. Supreme court ruled that state laws should not regulate interstate railroads. The rairoad monopolistics had the power to set prices, exclude competitors , and control several geographic areas in industrial state . The importance of this law is to prevent state polices that favored businesses at the expense of citizens -
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harsh working conditions
The women & children worked for 10-14 hrs a day for 6 days a week getting paid 3$-12$ weekly. Children mostly worked on big machines to clean them, they were small enough to fit between them. Industries were a big issue for children, it was a big risk for many factories -
The sherman antitrust act
The purpose of this law making was to protect consumers from the efforts of trusts , and monopolies to unfairly restrain trade. Its aim was to preserve economic competition in the market place and it imposed severe penalties on those violating the legislation . The effect of the sherman antitrust act was the first meausure enacted by the u.s congress to prohibit trust monopolies . The gov. used this toward J.D rockefelle w/ standard oil to disband his monopoly w/oil industry -
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populist party
populist wanted gov. to take a , ending oppresion , injustice and poverty farmers, industrial workers and miners were all supporting them. The platform for this was direct election of senators , unlimited coinage of silver , shorter work days, immigration restrictions with qoutes -
red record
informing northerners that lynching in the us was occurring down in the south . African Americans moved to New York . Wells anti-lynching campaign. -
plessy v. ferguson
in 1890 , the state of louisiana passed a law . it stemmed from an 1892 incident in wich african -american train passenger homer plessy refused to sit in a jim crow car , breaking a louisiana law. states could provide segregated facities to different race , so long as they were equal in quality . NAACP lawyers began challenging this "seperate but equal" american court system . after ruling the jim crow law began spreading throughout school , restaurants , etc. -
klondike region
-100,000 set out but only 30,000 made it to the region the difficult journey they had to witness was cause it was cold weather and they had to climb up a slope as well just to get their destination . miners risked their lives to try and get rich fast plus the gov. at the time did not have any environment protection ,the most important impact it also had was the town's cause the products costs more for miner then them finding gold -
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muckraker journalism
muckraker -one who inquires into & publishes into scandal & allegations of corruption among political &business leaders.
Muckrakers exposed people w unsafe working conditions , political corruption &social injustice muckrakers lessoned corruption in many aspects of american life -
pure food & drug act
-reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods & 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 & would later on remove them. -
NAACP(national association for the advancement of colored people
-formed in 1909 by W.E.B DU
Bois and Ida B.wells
-Its mission is to ensure the political, educational ,social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatted and racial discrimination
-NAACP tried to help african americans by using courts with the help of african american and white lawyers, they filed cases to challenge segregation and discrimination
-NAACP was a chance for African Americans to gain the rights that they deserved -
Pendleton act
Patronage system is a practice in wich a political party, after winning an election ,gives gov. civil service jobs to its supporters as reward working towards victory . Merit system is process of promoting & hiring gov. employees based on ability to perform a job. The public shock at garfields assassination led to the pendleton act wich helped ensure passage. civil service commission was created to give competitive exams & selected appointees based on merit