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The Revolution
-focused on women's rights and woman's suffrage
-Susan B Anthony Elizabeth cady Stanton both were publisher and editor they established the rev during a period when a split was developing within the women's rights movement together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S in 1963 -
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Harsh Working Conditions
-children as young as six years old working hard hours for little to no pay
-women mostly found jobs in domestic service textile factories and work shops
-children often worked up to 19 hours with one break
-women were payed less than men
-worked in dangerous conditions -
Assassination of president Garfield
-The assassin was Charles J. Guiteau
-Shot at the president twice, but only 1 bullet directly impacted him
-reason Charles shot him becacuse he was turned down from a job by the president, mentally unstable,believe god told him to
-Charles wrote a poem, "I am going to the Lordy" to Garfield about his own death
-Garfield lived for a couple months but soon died from an infection -
Interstate Commerce act of 1887
-The reason for this law was to make railroad rates fair for all he costumers
-The power of the law was basically to regulate railroad prices
-This was the first federal law to regulate private industry in the US
-The Importance of this law was to eliminate discrimination against small markets, and establishing a "reasonable & just prices" standard
-The ICC was to enforce regulations & investigate allegations such as fraud , deception , & discrimination toward private businesses -
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
-Andrew Carnegie > accumulation of great wealth by a few in any capitalist society -
Populist People's Party
-Their idea was economic reforms increase in money supply and gradual tax increase
-wanted direct vote for senators
-cause of these ideas was they wanted a greater voice government and populist programs kept alive the concept that the government is responsible for social injustice -
Plessy v. Ferguson
-black train passenger , Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking Louisiana law
-by 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 the provided equality -
The jungle
-written by muckracking journalist Upton Sinclair
-focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago and exploit the labor of men and women for profit
-Magnified the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry
-as results of making the public aware of the filthy and dangerous conditions, each local government passed its own set of health codes as well -
Pure Food & Drug Act
-prevented the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated , mislabeled or poisonous food, drugs or medicines
-was the first of many consumer protection laws
-the law required to label any drugs that are addictive including alcohol , morphine , opium and cannabis
-this law caused coca-cola have to replace the cocaine in their products with caffeine -
Red Record
-Ida B Wells,one of the co founders of the NAACP, wrote the red record
-the central topic of the pamphlet was to inform everyone on how black people were being treated for example some would be lynched
-the red record's effect on society is the states began to recognizing the seriousness of these subjects and began taking action -
16th Amendment
-allows congress to levy an income tax on the people
-its biggest effect was it shifted the balance or power toward the federal government and away from state
-progressive favoring or advocating progress and change
-revenue : collective items of income of a person state, etc
tariff: tax of duty to be paid -
17th Amendment
-the senate of the US shall be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people
-changed the theory about who senators represented ,shifting the focus from state govs to the residents of states
direct election : system of choosing political office holders in which the voters directly case ballots for the person -
Federal Reserve Act
-nation needed a way to strengthen the ways in which banks were run
-the act divided the nation into 12 districts and established a central bank in each district
-the federal reserve banks could issue new paper currency in emergency situations and member banks could use new currency to make loans to their customers
-by 1923 roughly 70 percent of the nations banking resources were part of the federal reserve system -
19th Amendment
-women wanted equality
-granted women the right to vote a right known as suffrage
-helped women move closer to equality in all aspects of american life
-women advocated for jobs,wages, sex education & birth control -
Progressive party
-the founder of the bull moose party is Theodore Roosevelt
-he was defeated in the republic primaries and broke off
-the party advocated women suffrage ,workmen's compensation an eight hour work day, a minimum wage for women, federal trade -
18th amendment vocab
temperance: restraint or moderation from drinking
prohibition: nation wide ban of alcohol
flapper: generation of young western women in the 1920's who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair and listened to jazz and flaunted their unacceptable behavior -
18th amendment
-caused the widespread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal activities
-established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US by declaring the production , transport , and sale of the alcohol illegal
-instead of reducing crime it created organized crime
