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NAACP
The mission of the National association for the advancement of the colony people is to ensure to political education , social economic, equality of rights of all person and to eliminate discrimination
-the cause was to discuss the racial justice for African Americans
-the effect led the legal rights to overturn the justice politics although they had a few cases over the years. -
Assassination of James Garfield
-Assasain
Charles J, Guiteuv
-WHY
-He thought God had told him to shoot the president
-He had Written a speech for Garfield that helped him win the presidents election
-doctor kills president because they didn't wash their hands
-this helped create the pend lenton act -
The populist movement
-The populist movement was a revolt by farmers in the south and Midwest against the democratic and republican parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties
-for over a decade farmers were suffering from crop failures prices, poor marketing , and lack of credit faculties
-the key platform to the populists party where unlimited coinage of silver to raise for prices and make loan repayment easier -
The Pendleton act
Patronage system is a practice after winning and election gives government civil services jobs to its supporters , friends , and relatives
-Merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees base on political connections
-Pendleton act was created in response to pres. Garfield assassination and civil service commission was created to back up the new acts and put in to action. -
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harsh working conditions
women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to work often in the mills or mines
-in the early 19th century there was restriction on the age of workers , this led to children as young as 8 or 9 being led to work 12 hours or more a day.
-working conditions were often unsanitary and the work was dangerous
-if they were injured in the mills they would lose their jobs. -
The interstate commerce act
-addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business , the act became law with the support of both major political parties and pressure groups from all regions of the country the interstate commerce commission was created , by the act to entrance these regulation and investigated allegations of fraud deception and discrimination gov. This was 1st law where government interfered with big business. -
Red Record
-Author
Ida B Wells
-Central Topic
Informing Northerners that lynching in the U.S was occurring down in south
-Effect
-African Americans moved To New York
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Plessy V. feguson
Supreme court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the "separation but equal" doctrine . It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-american train passenger homer plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car , breaking a Louisiana Law.
-allowed "separate but equal" also known as segregation ,to become law in the U.S Jim Crow Laws , which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against American-Americans, spread across U.S -
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peoples party
populists were convinced that rich industrialists and bankers haf a strangle hold on the government, like granges before them. populists wanted government to have a large role ending oppression , injustice , and poverty. The populists elected five senators and presidential candidate Jerome Kerby. he received 44 president of the votes in the 1896 election . Populists platform -unlimited coinage of silver direct elections of senators work day -
The Klondike gold rush
was a migration by an estimate 100,000 set but only 30,000 arrived to the Klondike region of Yukon in the northern western Canada between 1896 and 1889
-Around 4,000 found gold , many gave up due to the difficulties of the journey and returned home some were not able to survive the extreme temperatures and died .
-the greatest economic impact prospectors passed through settlements and the money from supplies they purchased boosted the economy considerably . -
pure drug and food act
reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods and medications, such as coca-cola had cocaine in it originally
-the gov then began enforcing the production & distribution of consumer products by founding the food & drug act (FDA)
-products were later required to label the harmful ingredients later on remove them. -
mu cracker journalism
one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruptions among political and business leaders
-exposed unsafe working conditions political corruption , and social injustices
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