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HarshWorkingConditions
Women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to work, often in 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 mores hours a day./Working conditions were often unsanitary and the work was dangerous./If they got injured in the mills they would lose their jobs. -
AssassinationOfJamesGarfield
He thought god had told him to kill the president because he had written a speech for Garfield that helped him with the presidential election. Formulated the delusion that it was a key factor in the Presidents victory. Asked to be rewarded with consulship (chair man of the senate) in Paris. Doctors killed the President because he didn't wash their hands. This helped create the Pendleton Act. -
PendletienSystem
Is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to it's supporters, friends and relatives. Is the process of promoting and hiring governments employees based on another ability to perform a job, rather than on their connection. Changed to Merit system from patronage because there was no work being done since they where hiring friends rather than certified workers. -
InterstateCommerceAct
To regulate the railroad industry and make railroad rates reasonable. Powers where to regulate commerce with foreign nations among several states. The I.C.C regulated railroads and industry problems were all solved. It was congress greatest control over what occurs in various states throughout the country with big businesses. -
ShermanAntiTrustAct
Was to stop monopolies engaging in unfair practices standard oil J.D Rockefeller that prevented fair competition. The act Marked a significant change in the attitude of congress toward the abuses of big business. Passes in 1890 The Sherman Anti-Trust was the first major legislation passed to address oppressive monopolists. -
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TheProgressiveEra
The Progressive Era was a time of social and political reforms, during which corruption and social inequalities were exposed, and many changes were made to American society. -
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PeoplesParty
Populists were convinced that rich industrialists and bankers had a strangle hold on the 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 received 44 President votes in the 1896 election. Populist Platform-unlimited coinage of silver direct elections of senators work day. -
RedRecord
Informing northerners that lynching in the U.S was occurring down in the south. African Americans moved to New York. Wells anti-lynching campaign. -
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PlessyV.Ferguson
African American train passenger Homer Plessy to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana. The case allowed racial segregation as long as the facilities were separate but equal this President was overturned in the 1954 Brown W. board of education case. NAACP lawyers began challenging this separate but equal American court system. -
DiscoveryOfGoldInTheKlondike
100,000 prospects left for the Klondike but only 40,000 people reached the region. The trip was long, cold, and difficult conditions were harsh, and starvation, malnutrition, and exposure to the cold was serious. Many gave up and several died. The greatest economic impact was on the towns in the region. Money from the supplies the prospectors purchased there boosted economy. -
NationalAssociationForTheAdvancementOfColoredPeople
Founders of the NAACP were Ida B. Wells & W.E.B Du Bois./The purpose of the NAACP was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of the rights of all persons and to eliminate racial discrimination./Causes and effects of the NAACP-NAACP was founded and as a direct response racial riots started. -
PureFood&DrugAct
Reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods and medicines, such as Coca-cola originally having cocaine in it.