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the revolution
focused on woman rights and woman suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both were publisher and editor.
they established the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman right movement.
together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the u.s in 1865
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
WCTU fought for prohibition, the banning of alcoholic beverages, wanted immigrants and poor city dwells to uplift themselves.
Frances Willard helped transform the union mid-western religious group to a national organization.
Aroused tension between immigrants because their customs included alcohol consumption. -
james garfield
term was less than 4 months
Charles G killed him because garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic corps.
C.G was convicted of murder and hanged on june 30,1882 in 1883 congress passes the pendleton act. -
Pendleton Act
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 perform a job
The cause was because president Garfirld 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 for campaign contributors -
interstate commerce act of 1887
the act created a federal regulatory agency which it changed with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations.
first law to regulate private industry in U.S
the power of the act is to the railroads rates be reasonable and just
interstate commerce commission enforce the regulation and investigate allegations of fraud, deception and discrimination. -
Sherman Antitrust 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.
standard oil felt pressure from government.
Andrew Carnegie accumulation of great wealth by a few in any capitalist society. -
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 bring treat for example some would lynched some of the states would treat them horribly like Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, And texas. and what would be punished for.
the red record effect on society is the states began recognizing the seriousness of these subjects, and began taking action. -
Plessy V. ferguson
black train passenger, Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law.
by a 7-1 vote, the court said that a 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. -
klondike gold rush
the klondlike rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north Canada only 30,000 actually made it to the Klondike gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River. News paper created a hysteria that was nation wide and many people quit their jobs then left the Klondike to become gold diggers. Many did not find gold many made money off the hardware store selling to the prospectors. -
pure food and drug act
the cause of the pure food and drug act was because of all the muckrakers like Upton Sinclair wiring stories on the working conditions and how filthy the factories were.
the power of the pure food an drug act is to protect against adulteration of food and from productions identfied as health without scientific support
the pure food and drug act they had the responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption and requirement for prescriptions -
The Jungle
published February 26,l 1906
author of the book is a muckraker named Upton Sinclair
written to a 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 indusrty during the early 20th century, which contributed to a public outery, that led to reforms including the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act -
NAACP
Name Founders: IDA B.Wells, W.E.B Du Morris
Purpose Of Org. - to insure the political, education, social and 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 the u.s formed by people of African Desendent to work for their rights. -
national association of the advancement of colored people
W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells
founded to fight the plessy V. Ferguson
fought for equal rights of African Americans
the NAACPs principal objective is to ensure political, educational, social and economic equality of all minority groups and eliminate and the barriers of racial prejudice -
17th Amendment
17th Amendment allowed the people to choose and vote for who the state senate will be.
the effect of the 17th amendment was direct election which is where citizens themselves vote for who will be senator
patronage giving government jobs who helped the president get elected