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harsh working conditions
women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to woek often in the mills or mines
-in the early 19th century there wasrestrictin on the age of workers this led to children as young as 8 or 9 being led to work 12 or more hrs day -
assasination of james garfield
assassin- CHARLES j giteau
why-
- thought godhad told him to shoot the president
-he helped him with the election of the speech
-formulate the delusion that the speechwas key factor in the presidents victory
- asked o be rewarded with the consulship in paris result
-doctor kills the president because they dint wash their hands -
the populist movement
the populist movement was a revolt by farmers in the south and Midwest against the democratic and the republican parties for ignoringtheir interests and difficulties
-for over a decade farmers were suffering from crop failiures falling pricespoor marketing and lack of credit facilities -
the pendleton act
patronage system is practice after winning and election gives government civil services jobs to its supporters friends and relatives
- merit system I th process of promoting and hiring government employees base on political connections -
the interstate commerce act
-addressed the problem o railroad monopolies by setting gueidines for how the railroads could do business the act became law with 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 allegation of fraud deception and discrimination gov. this as the 1st law where gov interfered with big business -
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peoples party
populist were convinced that rich industrials and bankers haf a strangle hold on the govermentlike grange before them. populist elected 5 senators and presidential candidate Jerome kerby. he recived 44 president votes in the 1896 election -
plessy v. feguson
supreme court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the separation but equl doctrine. it stemmd from an 1892 incident in which African American tain passenger homer plessy refused to sit in a jim crow car, breaing a Louisiana law.
-allowed "separate but equal" also known as segregation, to ecome law in the us -
red record
author
-ida b wells
central topic
-informing northerners that lynching in the us was occurring down in the south effect
-African American moved to new York
-wells anti-lynching campaign -
the klondike gold rush
was a migration by an estimate 100,000 set but only 30,000 set but only 30,000 arrived to the Klondike regin of the Yukon in the northern western Canada between 1896 1889
-around 4,000 found gold many gave up due to the difficulties of the journey and returnd home some were not able to survive the temps an died -
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mu cracker jounalism
one who inquires into and publishes into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruptins among political and business leaders -
pure drug and food act
reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods and medicinessuch as cocacola had cocaine originally
-the gov began to enforce he production and distribution of consumer products by founding the food and drug act -
NAACP
the mssin of the national associatin for h advancement of he colony people is to ensure to political educatim social economicequality of rights of all person and eliminate discreminatin
-the cause wasto discuss the racial justice for African americans