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Progressive Era
it was the era where there was a lot of progress and there a lot of amendment where made. -
Florence Kelley
was a strong voice for labor reform -
Manifest Destiny
settlert that they had to expand north -
7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth
Labor, Capital, Natural Resources, Technology, Consumers, transportation, Government Cooperation. -
Exploited Workers
Women and children made up more the 50% of the industrial workforce in the 1800s. -
Andrew Carnegie
he worked up in the ranks to be the riches man in the world -
Motivations to settle West
move west to make money and make have a net life -
Urbanization
1860-1915 rural population doubled, but urban pop grew 700%.
Everything was growing expensively -
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Civil War
issue slavery -
Wade Davis Bill (1863
Gaves newly freeman civil liberties Except the rights to vots. -
Pocket Veto (1864)
if the president does not sigh bill within 10 days it automatically becomes law. -
Black Code (1864)
restricted freeman's rights. -
Reconstruction Amendments (1865) 13th, 14th, 15th
the 3 plans to bring the stats togeather. -
Freedman's Bureau
It was there to help the blacks and poor wight southerners adjust to freedom. -
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Reconstruction
Rebuilding after the Civil War. -
Civil Rights Bill of (1866)
Gives blacks citizenship and forbids black discrimination. -
The Reconstruction Act of (1867)
It told the stats what they had to do to rejoin the stats. -
Transcontinental Rail road 1869
it is the railroad that stretched from Sacramento to Omah. The first railroad of it's kind -
Monopoly
monopoly by which a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or company to be the sole provider of a commodity -
John D. Rockefeller
Wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. -
Gilded Age
means that the perid was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. -
Compromise of 1877
It was about electing a ned present and about then not wanting troops on their state/land -
Old Immigrants
(Before 1880) Old Immigrants. almost all came from southern and western Europe. -
New Immigrants
(After 1880) New Immigrants. More then one-third came from the southern and erstern Europe. -
Civil Service Act
Civil Service Act sought to curb government corruption by requiring applicants for certain governmental juds to take a competitive examination -
Interstate Commerce Act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The act marked a significant change in the attitide of congress twords the abuses of big business -
Closing of the Frontier
Free land no longer for settlers moving west word and competing for jobs. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
it was about what was right and how the justice system is not far and how black right are not the same as wights -
Suffrage
it was a group of women that was fighting for the right to vote. -
Muckraker
writers that wanted to expose the big business of there lies. -
Temperance Movement
an organized campaign against alcoholic consumption -
Poll tax
a special fee that had to be paid before voting -
Jocob Riis
A native, of Denmark, personally experienced the terrible conditions under which many Americans lived. -
The Meat Inspection Act
Was passed in 1906 and brought reforms to the processing of animals destined for human -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wright it -
Jocob Riis
A native of Denmark personally experienced the terrible conditions under which many Americans lived. -
The Meat Inspection Act
was passed in 1906 and brought reformed to the processing animals desined for humans -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
was where a fire tuns of people jumped off the 8th floor of a building -
National Consumers League
a tun of people that make sure that it is safe and ok to products are ok to use. -
Landed on the Moon 22 August 1976
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B.Anthony
worked to further the cause of women's civil rights -
June 22 2003 my birth
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Hurricane Katrina effected the world on 23, 2005
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Reconstruction Plan (1863) Lincoln, Johnson, Radical Republican.
To rebuild the states and redild stuff that that was destored -
The Meat Inspection Act
That where they made sure the meat was sold a prepared and caned is a clean environment.
