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1913 BCE
Federal Reserve
-Nation needed a way to strength the ways in which banks were ran
-This act divide the nation into 12 districts and establised a central bank in each district
-The federal reserve banks could issue new paper currency in emergency situations and members banks could use the new currency to make loans to their customers
-By, 1923 roughly 70% of the nations banking resources were part of the federal reserve system -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
-The purpose of WCTU was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society
-Frances Willard became president of the wctu and turned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to achieve total abstinence -
Assassination of president James Garfield
-shot came from 94 british bulldog which the assasin Chaites J. Guiteau had purchased specifically because he thought it would look impressive -
Pendleton Act
-Provided the federal goverment jobs be awarded on the basis of recrit and be selected through competitve exams
-n 1881 a mentally unstable man assassinated james a garrield in prison against not obtaining -
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The Progressive era
-The progressive Era was time a of social and political reforms during which corruption and social differences were exposed many changes were made to american society
-Progressive Era was a time of reform such as the initiative and rererendum -
Sherman Antitrust Act
-Purpose was to prohibit trust , trust were arrangement where stockholders transferred their shares to a single group of men.
-Congress wanted to regulate interstate commerce and also prohibit monopolies and actiuties that hinded competiton.
-First federal program for regulation pirvate business
-Standard oil felt pressure from goverment
-Andrew Carnegie accumdation of great wealt by a few in deny capitalist society -
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Harsh Working Condition
-The children were paid less than 10 cents an hour for fourteen hour days of work
-Women earned an average of $267 a year nearly half of men's average of $498
-Emploment were not entitled to vacation sick leave unemploment compensation or reimbersement for injuries suffered on the job -
Red Record
-IDA B. Wells, the Co founder of the NAACP wrote the red record
-The red record effect on society is the state began recognizing
the seriousness of these subject and began taking action. -
Plessy vs Fergunson
Law case of the US supreme court it upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilites under the doctrine of seperate but equal
-Seperate but equal did not violate the 19th admendment to the US constitution in 1868, which guaranted equal protection under the law to all citizens
-The expression most often rerred to the legally or socially enforce seperation African Americans from other races but also applies the general discrimination against people of color by white communities. -
Pure Food and Drug Test
-Signed by Theodore Roosevelt
-led to FDA
-Proper drug and food regulation
-First thing to regulate consumer goods
-started with coca cola which had cocaine in it but converted to caffenie which FDA regulated -
The Jungle
-Focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago
& to exploit the labor of men & women for profit
-Magnited the sickening conditions of the meat-packing industry -
The Jungle
Focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago to exploit the labor of men & women for profit
-Magnified the sickness conditions of the meat packing industry
-As result of making the public aware of the filthy & dangerous conditions each local gov. passed its own set of health codes as well as the meat inspection act & the pure food & drug act -
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Social Gospel
-Settlement houses like the hull house with jane adams and religious groups helped start the social gospel movement
-They believed that churches had a duty to solve societys problems and preached salvation through service the the poor
-They were criticized by others believed the social gospel movement because they not believe their reforms could help -
The Bull Moose 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 workmens compensation an eight hour work day a minimum wage for women federal law against child labor and federal trade -
17th Ammendment
-17th ammendent allowed the people to choose and vote for who the state senate -
18th Amendment
-The 18th admendment was result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the U.S.
-It led to rise in organized crim as the bootlegging of alchol became an ever-more iverative operation
-Banned the sale & drinking of alcohol in the U.S.
-The admendment took effect in 1919 and was a hue failure -
19th Amendment
-Women wanted equality
-Granted Women the right to vote- a right known as suffrage
-Helped women move closer to equality in aspects of American life
-Women advocated for jobs , wages, education, sex education and birth conrol