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Wome Christian Temperance union (WCTU)
- WCTU fount for prohibition the banning of alcoholic beverages , wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves -Franco Willard helps transform the union from a small mind -western religious group to a national organization aroused tension between immigrants b/c their customs include alcohol consumption
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James Garfield
-term was less than 4 months then died.
-who killed him: Charles Guiteau killed him b|c he belived Garfield ownd him a patrong position in the diplomatic crops
-Result: Charles was convicted of murder & hanged on June 30 , 1882 congress passed the Pendleton Act -
Pendleton Act
-cause=president garfield was shot two by Charles Guiteau when turned a job down ,Cheseter Arthur became president
-Effect=officials could no longer pressure employed for campaign contributors patronage system is a practice in which a political party after winning an election gives Gov jobs to its supporters
-merit system is the process of promoting and hiring Gov employees based on their ability to preform a job -
Interstate Commerce Commission
- Railroads rates to be 'reasonable and just but didn't empower the GOV to fix Specific rate designed to regulate the railroad and industrial business
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Sherman Antitrust Act
-This act made it illegal to from a trust ( turned their stock over to group or person to control the company to have absolute power
- The Act prohibited monopolies having good competition with other companies under the Sherman act was not easy because it did not clearly define terms such as trust -
Populist Party
_platforms: graduated income tax 8 hr work day , restriction in immigration ,popular vote for senators
- cause= demanded reforms to lift the burden of from farmers and other workers, give people greater voice in the govt.
-candidates =republican party- Wiliam McKinney president , democratic party - Wiliam Jennings Bryan congressman
88 the populist pary was closely related to granger 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 Americans and help stat the NAACP for African American's rights
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Plessy V. Ferguson
-tested the constitutional of segregation
supreme court ruled that the separation = race in public accommodations was legal = did not violate 14th Amendment
-"Separate but equal allowed sates to maintain segregated facilities as long as they provided equal services pemitted legal far almost 10 years -
The Klondike Gold Rush
-about 100.000 Americans stampeded to the Klondike in search of fortune. only 10,00 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 people.Hardware stores earned money from miners. while the miners were not finding no gold cliaims making them lose money -
Pure food and Drug Act
-prevented the manufacture sale and transportation adulterated, mislabeled or poisonous food, durgs and medicines
-was the first of many consumer protection law
-this law required to label any addictive durg including alcohol , morphine , opium , cannabis
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The Jungle
-written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago & to exploit the labor of men 7 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 health codes as well as the meat inspection act 7 the pure food & drug act -
NAACP
-name founders: Ida B. Wells & W.E.B Du Morris
-Purpose or org: to ensuer the political ,educational social, & economic equality of minority , group citizens of U.S and eliminate race prejudice
-cause: to make whites aware of the need for racial equality
-effect: first group in U.S formed by people of African descendants to work for there rigths. -
16th Amendment
-allow the congress to levy an income tax on the people.
-its biggest effect was shift the balance of power toward the federal Gov and way from the states
-progressive favoring or advocating progress and change
-revenue- collective items of income of a person , states, ect
-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 people
-there of for 6 years and each shall have one vote. It change the theory About the who senators represented, shifting the focus from state Govs to the residents of states -
FEDERAL RESERVE ACT
cause= establish a form of economic stability In the U.S. trough the intro of the central bank
power= max. employer stabilizing pricesmoderatig long terms interest rate
effect= the banking system of U.S changed & helped create the federal reserve which we use today in Banking System -
18 th Amendent = Bar of Alcohol
-Temperance = restraint+moderation from drinking
- Prohibition = nationwide ban of alcohol
-Speakeasy = illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
- Flapper=generation of young western in 1920 who wore shorts skirts , bobbed their hair ,listened to jazz and flaunted their unacceptable behavior -
18 Amendments
- caused by widespread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing activities -Instead of reducing crime , it created massive organized crime movements and corrupted public officials who took bribes
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19th = Rigth to Vote
- woman wanted equality
- granted women the right to vote a right known as suffrage able to vote -help woman move closer to equality in all aspects of American life -women advocated for jobs, fair wages, education, Dec education and birth control