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The revoultion
-focused on womens rights & women suffrage.
-susan b anthony & and Elizabeth candy stanton bot were publisher and editor.
-they established the revoultion during a period when a spilt was developing within the womens rights movement.
-togther they provided leadership for ending slavery in the US im 186t.
-womens rights movement had greatly reduced its act. During civil war. -
Populist party (peoples party)
-purpose of the peoples party was to increase in the $ supply to help farmers & wokers .
-it was mainly towards struggling farmers &desperate labors.
-the movement is associated w/granger (farmers movement)
-rhe populisy program evently became the platform of the demo .party &kept it alive the concept that the gov.is responsible for reforming soical injustices.
-james b weaver was the populist candidate for pres that yr he pulled over 1,041.000 -
Womens chritian temperance union
-the purpose of wctc was to combat the influence of alcohol on families & society.
-frances willard become president of the wctc and turned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to achive total abstinence.
-the issue was seen in society as moral ,issue to create prohibition through the nation. -
Harsh working conditions
-children as young as 6 yrs old worked hard hours for little or no pay.
-Women mostly found jobs in domestic service textlie factories & spice work shops.
-children sometimes worked up to 19 hrs w/one break.
-worked in dangerous lacations.
-if one was hurt head or arm cut off. -
Assassination of president james garfiled
-shot came the 44 british bulldogs which the assassin charles j. Guiteau has purchased specifically becuase he thought it would look impression in a museum.
-he had killed grafiled because of the pres. Refusal to appoint him to European consulship.
-the assassin was know arouund Washington as a emotionally disturbed man.
-he was convinced that is a gods work. -
Pendleton act of 1883
-provided the federal gov. Jobs awarded on the basis of merit and be selected through competitive exams.
-in 1881 a mentally unstable man assassinated james A.garflied in protest against not obtaining a gov. Job.
-the publics reaction caused president Arthur to inturduce this law.
-potronage system: practice where after wining an election, gives gov. Jobs to its supporters/friends .
-merit system: process of prmotiong & hiring gov. Employees based on thier ability to perfrom a job. -
Inter state commerce act
-united state federal la that was designed to regulate the RR industry particularly is monopolistic practices.
-first law to regulate private industry in the us.
-the power of the acts to the RR rate to be "reasonable ans just .
-interstate commission (icc) exposed the religon and investigate allegations of deception & discrimination. -
Sherman anti-trust act
-was the first fed. Act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
-the sherman anit-trust act of 1890 was the first measured passed by the US congress to prohibit trust.
-trust: aarangement stockholders & transferred thier people.
-rockefeller was the standard oil & felt pressure from the gov. Simply reorganizing into single corpration.
-eventually the gov. Stopped trying to enforced the sherman act and consolidation of business continued. -
Red record
-ida a.wells
-wells passion was telling the country of the awful happening in the south lynching because she lost several friends.
-effect was to raise awareness and option of the southern region on how african americans were being treated. -
The Klondike gold rush
-about 100.000 americans stampeded to the Klondike in search of for only 10.000 made it americans headed north to test thier luck to take advantage of second mayor gold rush .
The economy different to each group of people stores earned money from miners while the miners were not any gold claims making them lose money . -
Discovery gold of the Klondike region
-the Klondike fold rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,00 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada only 30,000 acutally made it to the Klondike. -
Muckraker jurnalism
-muckraker jurnalism was one magazine journalist who exposed the currupt side of business & public life in the early 1900s.
-jurnalist described immigrat ghettos and the poor living conditions of tenement housing.
-muckraker condemned exploitarion of child labor & white slave traffic in women.
-they exposed rockefeller oil indurstry & his monoplist ways.
-authors like upton sinclair exposed the meat packing industry which led to ge meat packing act &pure good &durg act. -
Pure food & drug act
-pervented the manufacture or sale of gross misbatnded or poisonous food drugs or medicine .
-was the first many consumer protection acts.
-law required labeling of any drugs that are addictive including alcohol morphine opium and cannabis .
-caused caca-cola to replace the cocaine in their prouduct with caffeine.
-muckraker journalist a brought these crimes to the public eye. -
Naacp
-name founders IDA , b wells du bois.
-purpse of organ to ensure the political educational social & economic equ of minority group citizen of us &eliminate race causes to make whites aware of the need fro racial equality effects frist group in the us fromed by people africandesendent to work for there nights. -
16th amendment
Allows the crongress an income tax on the people.
Its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power towards the federal gov and away from states. -
Bull moose party
-the founder of the bull moose party was theodore Roosevelt's.
-he was defeacted in the republic primariea & broke off.
-the party advocated women suffrage worker men comp an 8hr workday a min wage for women federal law against child labor & federal trade. -
Federal Reserve act
-caused by the nations to strengthen how banks were run & and quickly to adjust amount of money in circulation & have enough money suppy to keep up w/ the econ.
-gave 12 federal resrve banks the abilty tobprint money in order to ensure economics stability.
-helped created the federal reserve system & centralized banking known as blankers bank.
-made the value of the us dollors stringer by influencing the econmony. -
18th amenment (cont),
-speackeasy; illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
-flapper:generation of young western women im the 1920s who wore shortbshirts ,bobbed thier listed to jazz and flaunted thier unacceptable behavior -
19th amendment
-women wanted equality .
-granted women the right to vote - aright known as suffrage.
-helped women move closet to equality in all aspects of american life.
-women advocated for jobs ,fair wages,education,sex education,and birth control. -
The progressive era
-the progressive era was a time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social
Diffrences were exposed many changes were made to American society.
-progressive era was time of reform such as the initiative and referendum. -
Plessy vs fergunson
-law case of the US Supreme Ct it upheld state racial segregation laws public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
-separate but equal did not violate the 14th amendment to the US Constitution in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens.
-the expression most often refers to the legally or socially enforced separation of african american from other races ,but also applies the general discrimination against ppl of color by white communities. -
The junggle
-written by muckraking journalist upton sinclair.
-focus was the human condtion in the stockyards of chicago & to exploit the labor of men & women for profit .
-magnificent the sickening conditions of the packing industry.
-as result of making the public aware of filthy & dangerous conditions each local gov. Passed its own set of health codes as well as the meet inspection act & the pure food & drug act.