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Women's christian temperance union
-WCTU fought for prohibition, the banning of alcoholic beverages, wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves
-Frances wilard help transform the union from a small mid-Weston religious group to national organization
-aroused tension btw immigrants b/c their customs included alcohol consumption -
harsh working condition's
-as factories were being built, they were in need of workers
-they would wrk frm 14-16 hrs 6 days of the week
-unskilled workers will get paid $8-10 a week get paid 10cents hr for 14 days kids were were used for simpler
-factories of cotton trade -
James Garfield
-term was less than 4 months then died
who killed him- Charles guiteau killed him b/c he believed Garfield owed him a patronage potion i the diplomatic corps.
result-C.G was convicted of murder & hanged on June 30, 1882 in 1883 congress passed the Pennington act. -
Pendleton act
-patronage system is a practice in which a political party after winning an election gives govr. jobs to it's supporters
-merit system is the procus of promoting and hiring gov. employees based on their ability to perform a job -
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the revolution
-focused on women's rights & women's suffrage
-Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth candy Stanton both were publisher & editor
-they established the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman's right movement
-together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S in 1865
-woman's rights movement had greatly reduced it's act. during civil war -
Interstate commerce act
-untied state federal law that was designed to reflate the RR industry particularly is monopolistic practices
-first law to regulate private industry in the U.S
-the power of the act is to the RR rate be "reasonable and just" -
Sherman antitrust act
this act made it illegal to form a trust (turned their stock over to a group or a person to control the company to have absolute power)
-the act prohibited monopolies having good competition with other companies in their industry
-companies under the Sherman act was not easy because it didn't clearly define terms such as "TRUST" -
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the progressive era
the progressive era was time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social differences were exposed many changes were made to american society -
populist party
Platforms: graduated income tax shr work day. restriction in immigration. popular vote for senators
cause: demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from framers and other workers & give ppl a greater voice in the gov.
candidates: republican party- William McKinney president. democratic party- William Jennings Bryan:congressman
THE POPULIST PARTY WAS CLOSELY RELATED TO GRANGE MOVEMENT THE FARMERS MOVEMENT -
red record
author: Ida B.wells
-about lynching in the U.s
helped educate america to help stop crimes against southern African Americans& help start the NAACP for Africans nights -
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social creed
-created by council of churches
BELIEFS- it was a person normal duty to help homeless
RESULTS- inspired even more reform actives (YMCA) young mens christian temperance union -
Plessy V. Ferguson
-tested the constitutionality of segregation
-supreme court ruled that the separation daces in public accommodations was legal & didn't violate the 14th amendment
-"separate but equal" allowed states to maintain segregated facilities as long as they provided equal services
-permitted legal segregation for almost 60yrs -
the Klondike gold rush
-about 100,000 Americans
-stamped to the Klondike in search of fortune only 100,00 made it
-Americans headed north to test
their luck to take advantage of the second major gold rush
- the economy different to each group of pll. hardware stores earned money from miners while the miners were not any gold claims making them lose money -
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muckracker
-were writers of the magazine & book exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s
-exposed the working conditions
-child labor
-poor working conditions
-revealed the unsafe & unsanitary practices of the meat packing industry in 1900s
the writing led to meat inspection act
-the muckrakers made Rockefeller more powerful -
the jungle
-written by muckraking journalists Upton Sinclair
-focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago & to ex plant the labor of men & women for profit
-magnified the sickening conditions of the meat-packing industry
-as result of making the public aware of the filthy & dangerous conditions, each local gov. passed its own set of heath codes as well as the meat inspection & the pure food &drug act -
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Social gospel
-settlement houses like the hull house w/ Jane Addams & religious groups helped start the social gospel movement
-they believed that churches had a duty to solve society's problems & preached salvation through service to the poor
-they were criticized by others believed the social gospel movement because they did not believe their reforms could help
-the progressive era, inspired even more reform acts for example the young men's Christians association YMCA the inspiration of WCTU women's -
NAACP
name founders
-IDA B.wells
-W.E.B Du Morris
purpoude of org.
-to ensure the political, educational social & economic equality of minority.
group citizens of U.S
eliminate race prejudice
cause- to make whites aware of the need for racial equality
effect- first grouping the U.s formed by ppl of African desendent to work for there rights -
16th amendment
-allows the congress to levy an income tax on the people
-its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power toward the federal gov and away from the states
-progressive favoring or advocating progress and change
-revenue-collective items of income of a person, state, etc
-tariff- tax or duty to be paid -
17th amendment
-the senate of the U.S shall be composed of 2 senators from each state, elected by the people there of 6 years and each senator shall have one vote
-it changed the theory about who senators represented, shifting the focus from state govs to the residents of states
-direct election: system of choosing political office holders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the the person -
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bull moose party
-the founder of the bell moose is Theodore Roosevelt
-he was defeated in the republic primaries & broke off
-the party advocated women suffrage, work men comp, an 8 hr workday a min. wage for women, federal law against child labor & fed. trade -
Federal reserve act
cause- establish a form of economic stability in the U.s thru the into. of the central bank
power- max employ. stabilizing prices moderating long terms interest rate
effect-the banking system of U.s changed & help create the fed. reserve which we use today in banking system -
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18th amendment
caused by wide spread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal activities-established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the U.S by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -instead of reducing crime, it created massive organized crime movements and corrupted public officials who took bribes-temperance: restraint moderation from drinking prohibition: nation wide ban of alcohol speak easy: illicit establishment jor -
19th amendment
-women wanted equality
-granted women the right to vote- a right knows as suffrage
-helped women move closer to quality in all aspects of american life
-women advocated for jobs, fairer wages, education,sex education, and birth control