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The Revolution
Focused on woman's right & woman suffrage
Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth Cody Stanton both were publisher & editor
They establish the revolution during period when a split was developing with the woman right movement
Together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the u.s in 1865
Woman rights movement had greatly reduced its act during civil war -
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Populist party [ people party]
The purpose of the the people party was to increase in the $ supply to help for farmers ?& workers
The moment is associated w/ grange ( the farmers moment)
the populist program eventually became the platform of the demo party & kept alive the concept that the gov is responsible for reforming social injustice
James B. Weaver was the populist candidate for pres that yr he pulled over 1,041,000 -
Women christian temperance union
The purpose of wctu was to combat the influence of alcohol of families and society
Frances Willard became president of the wctu and turned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to advance total abstinence
The issues was seen in society as moral issues to create prohibition through the nation -
discover gold in the Klondike regin
The Klondike gold rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north western Canada only 30000 actually made it to Klondike
Gold was discovered in many rich deposit along the Klondike river
Newspaper created a hysteria that was nation wide and many people quit their jobs and then left for the Klondike to become gold diggers
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Harsh working condition
Children as young as six years old worked hard hours for little or no pay
Children sometimes worked up to 19 hr with one break
Women were payed less than men 1/2 children 1/3 what men made
Worked in dangerous location
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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's reactions caused president Arthur to introduced this law
Patronage system practice where after wining an election government jobs to its supporters/friends
Merit system process prompting and hiring gov employees based on their ability to perform a job -
Interstate commerce act
United State federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry.
First law to regulate private industry in the us
The power of the act is to the railroad rate be reasonable and just.
Interstate comer-state commerce commission [ICC] enthuse the regulation and investigate allegations of friend defection and discrimination -
Sherman anti trust act
Was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
The Sherman anti trust act of 1890
Was the first measure passed by the us congress to prohibition
Trust arrangement stockholders & transferred their to people
Rockefeller was the standard oil and felt pressure from the government simply reorganized into single corporation
And eventually the government stopped trying to enforced the Sherman act and consolidation of business continued -
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The progressive era
The progressive era was a time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social difference were exposed many changes were made to american society
Progressive era was a time of reform such the initiative and referendum (vote) -
Red Record
Ida B. Wells
Wells passion was telling the country of the awful happening lynching because she lost several friends
Effect was the raise awareness and option of the southern region on how African american were being treated -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Law case of the us supreme court it upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal
Separate but equal; did not violate the 14 Th amendment to the us constitution in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens
The expression most often refereed to the legally or socially enforce separation Africa American from other races but also applies the general discrimination against people of color by white communities -
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Muckraker timespan
Muckraker journalist was one of the magnize journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business & public life in the early 1900
Journalist described immigrant ghettos poor living conditions housing
Muckraker condemned exploitation of child labor & white slave traffic in women
They exposed Rockefeller oil industry & his monopolist ways
Authors like Upton Sinclair exposed the meat packing industry which led to the meat packing act & pure food drug act -
The jungle
Written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair
Focus was the human condition in the stockyard of Chicago &to exploit the labor of men & women for profit
Magnified the sickening conditions of the meat packing industries
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 & the pure food & drug act -
pure food & drug act 1906
Prevent the manufacture or sale of gross misoranded or poisonous food drugs or medicines
Was the first of many consumer protection acts
Law required labeling of any drugs that are addictive including alcohol morphine opium and cannabis
Caused coca-cola to replace the cocaine in their product with caffeine
Muckraking journalist brought these crimes to the public eye -
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Social Gospel
Settlement house 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 problems & preached salvation through services 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 christian association YMCA & the inspiration of wctu -
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people and organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality
Had over 6000 members 14
Aimed for nothing less than full equality among the races
W.E.B Du Bois in 1909 Web Du helped establish the NAACP
2 presidents who followed Roosevelt also did little to advance the goal of racial equality -
16 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
Tariff-tax or duty to be paid -
17 amendment
The senate of the u.s shall be composed of 2 senators from each state elected by the people there of for 6 years and each senators shall have one vote
It change the theory about who senators represent shifted the focus from state gov to the residents of states
Direct election system of choosing political office holders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person -
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Bull moose party
The founder of the bull house party is Theodore Roosevelt
he was defeated in the republican primaries and broke off
The party advocated women suffrage, workmen comp an eight hour work day a minimum wage for women federal law against a child labor and federal trade -
Federal reserve act
Caused by the reaction need to strengthen how banks were & quickly
Adjust amount of money in circulation & have enough money supply to speed up the econ
Gave the 12 federal reserve banks the ability to print money in order to insure economic stability
Helped create the federal reserve system & centralized banking known as bankers bank
made the value of the us dollar stronger by influencing the economy -
18 th amendment
Cause by wide spread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal activities
Established he prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the u.s by declaring the production transport and sale alcohol illegal
Instead of reducing crime it created massive organized crime movements and corrupted public officials who took bribes -
19 amendment
Women wanted equality
Granted women the right to vote a right know as suffrage
Helped women move closer to equality in all aspects american life
women advocated for jobs fair wages education sex education and birth control -
vocabs
Temperance-restraint moderation from drinking
Prohibition-nationwide ban of alcohol
speakeasy-illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
Flapper-generation of young western women in 1920 who wore short skirt bobbed their hair listen to jazz and flaunted their unacceptable behavior