-
The revolution
-focused on women's rights and women's suffrage
-Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton both were publisher and editor
-they established the revolution during a period when a split was devolving within the women rights movement
-together they were provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S in 1963
-women rights move had greatly reduced it's act during a civil war -
Period: to
Harsh Working Condition
-The children were paid less than 10 cents an hour for fourteen hour days of work
-women earned an average of $267 a year nearly half of men's average of $498 -
women's Christian temperance Union (WCTU)
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 a national organization
-aroused tension by the way immigrants because their customs included a alcohol consumption. -
President James Garfield
-term was less then 4 months then died
-who killed him Charles Gilteau because he believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic corps
-result G was convicted of murder & hanged on June 30, 1983 congressed passed the pendieton act -
Pendleton Act of 1883
-provided the federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and be selected through competitive exams
-in 1881 a mentally unstable man assassinated James A Garfield in protest against not obtaining a government job
-the public reaction caused president Arthur to introduce this law
-patronage system practice where after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters / friends
-merit system process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability -
Discovery gold in the Rlondike Region
-the rlondike gold rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the rlondike region of North-Western Canada only 30,000 actually made it to the Rlondike
-Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the rlondike river
-newspaper created a hysteria that was nation-wide and many people quite their jobs and then left for the klondike to become gold diggers
-many did not find gold many made money off the hardware store selling the prospector -
Interstate Commerce Act
-United state federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry particularly is monopolistic practices-First law to regulate private industry in the U.S
-The power of the act is to the railroad rate be "reasonable and just"
-Interstate comerstate Comerce Commission (ICC) entose the regulation and investigate allegations of fraind decetion and discrimination -
Period: to
Progressive Era
-The progressive era was a time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social differences were exposed many changes were made to American society
*Progressive Era was a time of reform such as the initiative and referendum (vote) -
Red Record
-Author : Ida B wells
-helped educate America to help stop crimes against southern African Americans & help start the NAACP for African Americans Rights -
Plessy V Ferguson
-Tested the constitutionality of segregation
-supreme court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal
-separate but equal allowed states to maintain segregated facilities as long as they provided equal services
-permitted legal segregation for almost 60 years -
The Klondike gold rush
-about 100,000 Americans stampeded to the Klondike in search of for only 10,000 made it
-American headed North to test their luck to take advantage of the 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 -
Period: to
Muckraker Journalism
-Muckraker journalism was one of the magazine journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the 1900s
-Journalists described immigrant ghettos and poor living conditions of tenement housing
-Muckraking condemned exploitation of child labor and white slave traffic in women
-They exposed Rockefeller oil industry and his monopolists ways
-Authors the Upton Sinclair exposed the meat packaging industry which led to the meat packing act and pure drug and food act -
The Jungle
-written by muckraking journalists Upton Sinclair
-focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago to exploit the labor of men & women of profit
-magnified the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry
-as result of making the public aware of the filthy & dangerous conditions each local government passed its own set of health codes as well as the meat inspection act the pure food & drug act -
PureFood and Drug Act 1906
-Prevented the manufactured or sale of gross misbranded or poisonous food drugs
-was the first of many consumer protection acts
-law required labeling of any drugs that are addictive including alcohol, morphine, and cannabis
-caused coca cola to repla -
Period: to
social gospel
-settlement houses like the Hull house with Lane Addams and religious groups helped start the "social gospel movement"
"they believed that churches had a duty to solve society's problems and 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 -
NAACP
-name founders , Ida B Wells and WEB Du Bois
-purpose of organ to ensure the political educational social & economic equal of minority group citizens of US & eliminate race
-causes to make whites aware of the need fro racial equality effects first group in the US formed by people African descendant to work for there rights -
16 amendment
-allows the congress an income tax on the people
-its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power towards the federal government 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 or for 6 years and each senator shall have the vote
-it changed the theory about who senators represented shifting the focus from state governments to the residents of states
-direct election system of choosing political office holded in which the votes directly ballots for the person -
Period: to
bull moose party
-The founder of the is Theodore Roosevelt
-He was defeated in the republic primaries & broke off
-The party advocated women suffrage , work men's comp , an 8 hr workday a min wage for women , federal law against child labor & fed trade -
Federal reserve act
-nation needed a way to strength the way to strength the ways in which banks were run
-this act divided the nation into 12 districts and established a central bank in each districts.
-the federal reserve banks could issue new paper currency in emergency stations and members banks could use the new currency to make loans to their custom by 1923 roughly 70%of the nations of the nations banking resources were part of the federal resource were part of the federal -
Period: to
Populist "people" party
-purpose was to increase in the money supply to help for farmers and workers
-Mainly towards struggling farmers and the desperate laborers
-Movement is associated with granger (the farmers movement)
-the populist programs eventually became the platform of the democratic party and kept alive the concept that the government is responsible for reforming social injustices
-James B Weaver was the populist candidate for president that year he pulled over 1,041,000 -
18th amendment
-caused by widespread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal activities
-established the prohibition beverages in the U.S by declaring the production and sale of alcohol illegal
-instead of reducing crime it created massive organized crime movements and corrupted public officials who took bribes -
18th amendment #2
-temperance restraint + moderation from drinking
-prohibition nation wide ban of alcohol
-speak easy illicit establishments that sells alcoholic beverages
-Flapper generation of young western women in 1920s who wore short skirts bobbed their hair listened to jazz and flaunted their unacceptable behavior -
19th amendment
-women wanted equality
-granted women the right to vote- a right known as suffrage
-helped women more closer to equality in all aspects of american life
-women advanced for jobs, fairer wages, education, sex education and birth control -
Sherman antitrust act
-the act made it to form a trust
-the act prohibited monopolies having good competition with other companies on their industry companies under the Sherman act was not easy because it didn't clearly define terms such as trust turned their stock over to a group or person to control the company to have obsolete power