US History Week 2

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    Harsh Working Condition

    -10 cents and hour,12-14 hours a day $8 to $10 a week
    -Children were paid less than 10 cents an hour, for 14 hours a day
    -Women received between 1/2-1/3 the pay of men
    -Machines were heavy and dangerous,black smoke spit out
  • Woman's Christians Temperance union

    Woman's Christians Temperance union
    -The purpose was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society
    -Frances Willard became president of the union and turned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to achieve total abstinence
    -The issue was seen in society moral,issue to create prohibition through the nation
  • Assassination of James gardfield

    Assassination of James gardfield
    -Shot came from .44 British bulldog which the assassin Charles j. he thought it would look impressive in a museum
    -He had killed Garfield because of the president refusal to appoint him to a European consulship
  • Pendleton Act of 1883

    Pendleton Act of 1883
    -A organizational structure,usually political,in which officials are perceived to award positions to individuals based on loyalty.
    -Merit system-promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job.
    -The pendleton act provided that federal gov. jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that the gov. employees be selected through competitive exams.
    -The law forbids requiring employees to give political service or contributions for gov. favors
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    -The act created a federal regulatory agency witch it changed with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations
    -First law to regulate private industry in the unites states
    -The power of the act is to the railroads rates be "reasonable and just"
    -Interstate commerce commission-to enforce the regulation and investigate allegations of fraud,deception and discrimination
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    The Progressive Era

    -The progressive era was a time 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 initiatives and referendum(VOTE)
  • Sherman Antitrust Act 1890

    Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
    -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 activities that hindered competition
    -First federal program for regulation private business felt pressure from government.
    -Andrew Carnegie accumulation of great wealth by a few in any capitalism society
    -Standard oil
  • Red Record 1895

    Red Record 1895
    -Ida B. Wells the co-founder of the NAACP,wrote the red record
    -The central topic of this pamphlet was to inform everyone on how black people were being treated for example some would get lunched
    -The red records effect on society is the states began recognizing the seriousness of these subjects
  • Discovery Gold in the Klondike Region

    Discovery Gold  in the Klondike Region
    -The gold rush was am event of migration by an estimated 100.000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada only 30.000 actually made it to the Klondike
    -Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike river
    -Newspapers created a hysteria that was nation-wide and many people quit the jobs and then left for the Klondike to become gold-diggers
    -Many did not find gold many made money off the hardware store selling to the prospectors
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    -Plessy vs. ferguson was a landmark constitution law cause of he u.s supreme court
    -The us supreme court ruled that racially separate facilities,if equal,did not violate the constitution
    -All railways companies carry both races(white and color race)
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    Muckraker Journalism

    -Means to search for an exposing misconduct in public life,like Upton Sinclair and Ida b. wells
    -They would write about things that the gov. or company owners wanted to keep a secret and out if the minds of the pubic
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle
    -Published February 26,1906
    -Written to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
    -Concerned with the exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the american meat packaging industry during the early 20th century,which contributed to a public outer,that led to reforms including the meat inspection and the pure food and drug act
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    -The cause of the pure food and drug act was because of all the muckrakers like Upton sin Clair writing stories on the working conditions and how filthy the factories were
    -The power of the food and drug act is to protect the public against adulteration of food and drugs destined for human consumption and the requirement for prescriptions
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    Social Gospel

    -settlement house like the hull house with James Adams and religious groups helped start the 'social gospel movement'
    -They believed that churches had a duty to solve society's problems and preached salvation through services to the poor
    -They were criticized by others believed the social gospel movement because they did not believe their reform could help
    -The progressive era inspired even more reform activities for example (wctu)
  • Naacp

    Naacp
    -W.E.B DU Bouis,ida b. wells
    -Was founded to fight the case Plessy v Ferguson
    -Helped fight for equal rights foe A.A
    -The NAACPS principal objective is to ensure political ,educational,social and economic equality of all minority groups and eliminate racism and the barriers of racial prejudice
  • 16th Amendment

    -Allow the congress to levy an income tax on the people
    -its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power toward the federal gov and away from the states
    -Progressive flavoring advocating progress and change
    -Revenue collective items of income of a person,state,ect
  • 17th Amendment

    -The senate of the u.s shall be composed of 2 senators from each state,selected by the peoplethere for 6 years and each senator shall have one vote
    -It changed the theory about who senator represented,shifting the focus from state gov to the resident of states
  • The Bull Moose Party

    The Bull Moose Party
    The founder of the bull moose party is the Theodore Roosevelt
    -He was defeated in the republic primaries and broke off
    -The party advocated woman suffrage workmen compensation an eight hour work day a minimum wage for women federal law against child labor and federal trade
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    -Nation needed a way to strengthen the ways in which banks were run
    -This 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 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
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    -The 18 amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the u.s
    -It led to rise in organized crime as the bootlegging of alcohol became and even-more iterate operation
    -Banned the sale & drinking of alcohol in the u.s
    -The amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure
  • 18th adme. Vocabulary

    Temperance-abstinence from alcoholic drinks
    Prohibition-legal act of prohibiting the manufacture,storage in barrels,bottles,transportation and sale of alcohol including alcoholic beverages
    Speak-easy-an illicit liquor store or nightclub
    Flapper-a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself
  • 19th Amendment

    -Women wanted equality
    -Grated women the right to vote,a right knows as suffrage
    -Helped women move closer to equality in all aspect of american life
    -Women advocated for jobs,fairer wages,education,sex education,and birth control