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Orgin of Species
*Charles Darwin's book on the theories of evolution.
*One of the most important works of scientific study published.
*Banned in 1895 because it went against Christianity.
*The book primarily contained theories on natural selection. -
The First Pro Baseball Team
*Founded in New Jersey in 1869.
*Cincinnati Red Stockings.
*Founded by brothers Harry and George Wright
*They played their first team on May 4th of the same year. -
The End of the Reconstruction
*Ended early for a compromise between the parties.
*Cut short before it could accomplish its mission.
*Its early end is important because it was ended by political corruption.
*THe end of the reconstruction left many people in need now helpless barely better than before the reconstruction. -
Tuskegee Institute
*founded in 1881
*Made to train teachers
*Founded by Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Lewis Adams
*Truly was used to experiment on people -
Pendalton act of 1883
*establishing a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work.
*Made following the assassination of President Garfield
* It established the principle of hiring federal employees on the basis of merit rather than political affiliation.
* Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled job seeker -
Huckleberry Finn
*a book was written by Mark Twain
* Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South
*published in 1884
*banned in February 1885 -
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
*caused railroads to charge fair rates to all their customers.
*Intentionally vague and easy to workaround.
*failed pretty bad.
*Did next to nothing to restrain corporate power. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
*The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
* Its purpose was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness and to regulate interstate commerce.
* John Sherman proposed and passed it in 1890.
*Expanded in 1914 -
Populist Party
*also known as the People's Party
*One of the Populist Party's central goals was to create a coalition between farmers in the South and West and urban laborers in the Midwest and Northeast.
*They demanded an increase in the circulating currency
*founded by James Weaver -
Plessy vs Ferguson
*upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
*As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace.
*ruled segregation as legal
*Overwellimng vote of 7 to 1 -
The Mapel Leaf Rag
*In 1899 Scott Joplin wrote one of his earliest and most successful ragtime compositions "Maple Leaf Rag",
* named in to pay homage to the Maple Leaf Club in Sedalia, MO.
* It was one of Joplin's early works, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers.
*The piece was initially instrumental and sold as sheet music ( over1million copies) with royalties -
the souls of black folk
*written in the United States by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1903.
*An important part of the book was the thesis of "The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line."
*The Souls of Black Folk, read as a single work, is a unique admixture of history, social documentary, autobiography and anthropological fieldwork.
*The book took place in rural Georgia and Tennesee