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The Revolution
-This newspaper was established by workers rights activist Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cody Stanton
-It's primary focused on workers rights, especially women's suffrage , is the fight of women to vote in elections
-It helped them strengthen their movement and prepare the way for an organization to represent women's rights -
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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
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Peoples Party
-The purpose of the "peoples party" was to increase in the money supply to help for farmers and any workers
-The purposed were to mainly towards struggled farmers and desperate laborers
-The movement is associated with grange(the farmers movement)
-The populists programs eventually become the platform of the democratic party and keeps alive the concept that the government is responsible for the reforming social injustices
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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 audience
The issue was seen in society as moral , issue to create prohibition throughout the nation. -
Assassination of President James Garfield 19sep1881
-Shots came from .44 British Bulldog , which the assassin Charles J. Guiteau , had purchased specifically because he thought it would look impressive in a museum
-He had killed Garfield because of the President's refusal to appoint him to a European consulship
-The assassin was know around Washington as an emotionally disturbed man
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Interstate Commerce Act
-The act created a federal regulatory agency which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations
-First law to regulate private industry in the United States
-The power of the act is to the railroad rates be "reasonable and just"
-Interstate Commerce Commission- to enforce the regulation and investigate allegations of fraud, deception and discrimination -
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 activities that hindered competition
-First Federal program for regulating private business
-Stander oil felt pressure from government
-Andrew Carnegie > accumulation of great wealth by a few in any capitalist society -
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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 the initiative and referendum(vote) -
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POPULIST PARTY
The People's party, more commonly known as the Populist party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processes, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests. -
Red Record
-Ida B. Wells the co-founder of the NAACP , wrote the Red Record
-The central topic of the pamphlet was to inform everyone on how black people were being treated , example: some would get lynched some of the states would treat them horribly like Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi , South Carolina and Texas , they would be punished for.
-The Red Record's affect on society us the state began recognizing the seriousness of these subjects , and began taking action -
Discovery gold in the Klondike Region
-The Klondike gold rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of North-Western Canada only 30,000 actually mad it to the Klondike
-Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River
-Newspaper created a hysteria that was Nation-wide and many people quite their jobs -
The Jungle
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 industry during the 20th century , which contributed to the public -
Pure food and drug act
-The cause of the pure food and drug act was because of all the musketeers like upon Sinclair writing stories on the working conditions and how filthy the federals were
-The power of the food and drug act is to protect the public against adulteration of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support
-The pure food and drug out they had responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption and the requirements for prescriptions -
NAACP
-Founded to fight the Plessy vs Ferguson
-Fought for equal rights for African Americans
-The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure political educational, social and economic equality for all minority groves and eliminate racism . -
16th Amendment
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. -
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 women suffrage , Workmen's compensation an eight hour work day a minimum wage for women , federal law against child labor and federal trade -
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 establish 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 -
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Woodrow Wilson's
Woodrow Wilson was one of America's greatest Presidents. His domestic program expanded the role of the federal government in managing the economy and protecting the interests of citizens. His foreign policy established a new vision of America's role in the world. And he helped to make the White House the center of power in Washington. Most historians rank him among the five most important American Presidents, along with Washington, Lincoln, and the two Roosevelts. -
17th Amendment
-Allowed the people to choose and vote for who the state senate will be.
-The effect of the 17th Amendment was direct election which is where citizens themselves vote far -
NEW IMMIGRATION
By the early 19th century, American society had fully embraced the “Cult of True Womanhood,” an ideology that claimed women were best suited in the home, serving as the family’s moral guide. This protected-class status was intended to shield women from being sullied by the nefarious influences of work, politics and making war. -
NAACP Establishment
The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. -
PENDLETON ACT 1883
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation
