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"The revolution"
-focuses on women's rights & woman's suffrage
-Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth cady Stanton both were publisher & editor
-they established the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman's rights movement
-together they provided leadership for ending slavery In the U.S in 1865 -
Womens christian temperance union
-WCTU fought for prohibition, the banning of alcoholic beverages, wanted immigrants and poor city dwells to uplift themselves
-frances Willard helped transform the union from small mid-western religious to a national organization
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Assasination of president james garfield
-shot came from .44 British bulldog which the assassin Charles j. guiteau, ad purchased specifically because he thought it'd look impressive in a museum
-he had killed Garfield because of the presidents refusal to appoint him to European consulship
-the assassin was known around Washington as a emotionally disturbed man
-he was convinced it was gods work -
Pendleton act
-patronage system is a practice in which 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
-the cause was because president Garfield was shot two times by Charles guiteau whom he had been turned down from a job chester after he became president
-the effect on society was officials could no longer pressure employees for campaign contributers -
Interstate Commerce act of 1887
-the act created a federal regulatory agency, which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations
-first law to privately regulate industry in U.S
-the power of the act is the railroads be "reasonable and just"
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Harsh working conditions
-the children were paid less than 10 cents an hour for more than 14 hours of working
-women earned an average of $267 a year nearly half of mens average $498
-employees were not entitiled to vacation, sick leave, unemployment compensation, or reimbursement for injuries suffered n the job -
Sherman anti-trust act
-purpose was to prohibit trust, trust were arrangements where stockholders transferred their shares to a single group of men
-congress wanted to regulate interstate commerce and also prohibit monopolies and activities that hindered competition
-first federal program for regulating private business
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The Progressive era
-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
-progressive era was a time of reform such as inititave and refrendrum -
Red record
-Ida B. wells, one of the co-founders of the NAACP, wrote the red record
-the central topic of this pamphlet was to inform everyone on how black people were being treated, for example people would get lynched
-effect on society is the states began recognizing the seriousness of these subjects, and began taking action -
Klondike Gold rush
-100,000 people left to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada
-each person forced to bring a years worth of food to prevent starvation
-supplies weighed a ton, broke down into parts and many didn't make it until summer of 1898
-economy suffered from fires,high prices, & epidemics
-han people suffered from a rush being moved to a reserve and many died -
"The jungle"
-author of book is a muckraker named Upton Sinclair
-written to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
-concerned with the exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat packaging industry during the early 20th century, which contributed to a public outery,the led to reforms including the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act -
Pure food and drug act
-prevented the manufacture or sale of gross misbranded or poisonous food, drugs, or medicines
-was the first of many consumer protection acts
-law required labeling of any drugs hat are addictive including alcohol, morphine, opium, and cannabis
-caused Coca-Cola to replace the cocaine in their product w/ caffeine -
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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 societys 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 mens Christian association" (ymca) & (wctu) -
NAACP
Name founders- IDA B. Wells/ W.E.B. Du Morris
Purpose of org.- to ensure the political, educational, social & equality of minority
-group citizens of U.S
-eliminate race prejudice
Cause- to make whites aware of the need for racial equality
Effect-first group in the U.S formed by people of African desendent to work for their rights -
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"bull moose"
-the founder of the bull moose party is Theodore Roosevelt
-he was defeated in the republican primaries and broke off
-the party advocated women suffrage, workmens compensation, 8 hour work days, a minimum wage for women,federal law against child labor, and federal trade -
17th amendment
-17th amendment allowed the people to choose and vote for who the senate will be
-the effect of the amendment was a direct election, which is where citizens themselves vote for will be senator
-patronage- giving government jobs to the people who helped the president get elected -
Federal reserve act
-nation needed a way to strengthen the ways in which banks were run
-the act divided the nation into 12 districts and established a central bank in each district
-the federal reserve banks could issue new paper currency in emergency situations and members banks could use the new currency to make loans to their customers
-by 1923 roughly 70% of the nations banking resources were part of the federal reserve system -
18th amendment
-the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the U.S
-it led to the rise in organized crime as the bootlegging alcohol became an ever-more assertive operation
-banned the sale and drinking of alchohol in the U.S -
16th amendment
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19th amendment
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Plessy v. ferguson
-black train passenger,home Plessey refused to sit in a Jim crow chair car, breaking a Louisiana law
-by a 7-1 vote,the court said that state law that "implies merely a legal distinction" between the two races did not conflict with the 13th amendment forbidding involuntary servitude, nor did it reestablish such a condition
-the discussion established the doctrine of "separate but equal" which allowed states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equality -
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Populist Party
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Muckraker journalism
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18th amendment vocabulary
Temperance- abstinence form alcoholic drinks
Prohibition-legal act of prohibiting the manufactures storage in barrels, bottles, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
speak-easy- an illicit liquor store or nightclub
flapper- a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standard of behavior