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Harsh Working Conditions
woman were also frequently employed as low fired workers-woman found jobs in domestic services,and textile factories,also worked in coal mines-were paid on average $3 to $12 weekly-kid started working as young as 6 years old-kids got paid 1/4 of the adult man or got paid nothing-kids usally worked 19 hours w/ 1 hour break -
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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 -
klondike gold rush
100,000 prospectors migrated,only 30,000 made it,and 2,000 found gold,200 got rich-most frozen terrain was too steep for pack animals,miners carried about 1/2 a ton of equipment over mountains-greatest economic impact was on local towns where prospectors bought food and supplies,also those who found gold blew it all on bars and gambling in those towns -
Assassination of James Garfield
Assassin-Charles J.Guiteau-He thought god had told him to shoot the president-He had written a speech for garfield that helped him win the presidential election- -
Pendleton Act of 1883
patronage system is the practice in which a political party, after winning an election-merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections -
Interstate commerce act of 1887
The causes for the law was to regulate the railroad industry particulary its monopolist practices-supreme court ruled that state laws should not regulate interstate railroads-the railroad monopolies had the power to set prices,exclude competitors,and control several geographic areas in individual states-The importance of this law is to prevent state policies that favored bussinesses at the expence of citizens -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
the purpose of this lawmaking was to protect consumers from the efforts of trust,and monopolies to unfairly restrain trade-its aim was to preserve economic competition in the market place and it imposed reserve penalties on there violating the legislation-the effect of the sherman antitrust act was the first measure enacted by the us congress to prohibit trust monopolies-the gov used this towards J.D Rockafelle w/ Standard oil to disband his monopoly w/ oil industry -
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Populist party
Some of the populist parties core ideas were unlimited coinage of silver to make loan payments easier-immigrants ristrictions with quotes-shorter work days of 8 hours a day-directed election of sen.instead of by state ledislatures-the cause for these ideas were because rich industrialist and bankers had a strong hold of governer william jennings bryan was nominated president after he delivered his"cross of god" speech but lost to william mckinely -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It upheld state racial segregation laws- Court ruled that law “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th&14th Amendments- separate but equal means that a person or group of people is treated differently, even though access to public places,services,opportunities,and legal rights-jim crow law was a system of laws meant to discriminate against African Americans- Even though the law stated that the separate facilities had to be equal but werent -
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Muckraker Journalism
Muckraker-one who inquires into and publishes and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders-Muckrakers exposed people with unsafe working conditions,political corruption and social injustice-Muckrakers lessened corruption in many aspects of american life -
Pure Food And Drug Act
the cause of this act has because the meat was being contaminated by the toxins-The gov then began enforcing the production&destruction of consumer products by funding the food&drug admin(FDA)-products were later required to label the harmful ingredients and would later remove them -
NAACP
Founders of national advancement for the advancement of colored people were ida b.wells&W.E.B Du Bois-The purpose of the NAACP was to ensure the political,educational,social,and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial discrmination-NAACP was founded and as a direct response racial riots started