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Harsh working conditions
-10 cents an hour, 12-14 hours a day,$8-$10 a week
-children got 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
-workers were covered in black soot
-workers were sick or had cut off limbs
-children and women were abused
-children had physical deformatics, because lack of sunlight -
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The Revolution
-Focused on womens rights and womens suffrage
-Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth cady Staton both were publisher & editor
-They created the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman's right movement
-Together they provided leadership to stop Woman's suffrage in the US -
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The Revolution
-Focused on womens rights and womens suffrage
-Susan B anthony and Elizabeth C stanton both were publishers and editors
-They established the revolution during a period when split was developing within the Women's suffrage in the US -
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Populist Party
-The purpose of the peoples party was to increase in the $ supply to help for farmers and workers
-It was mainly towards struggling farmers and desperate laborers
-the moment is associated with Granger
-The populists program eventually became the platform of the Demo. party and kept alive the concept that the gov. is responsible for reforming social injustices -
Women's christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
-fought for prohibition the banning of alcoholic beverages wanted immigrants and poor city dwells to uplift themselves
-Frances Willard help transform the union from small mid-western religious group to a national organization
-Aroused tension between immigrants because their customs included alcohol consumption -
Assasination of President Garfeild
-The Assassin was Charles J. Guiteau
-Shot at the president twice only 1 bullet directly impacted him
-Reason Charles shot him was because he was turned down from a job by the president -
Pendleton Act
-Patronage system is a practice in which a political party after winning an election gives gov jobs to its supporters
-Ment system is the process of promoting and hiring gov employees based in their ability to perform a job
CAUSE- President Garfield was shot two times by Charles Guiteau whom he had been turned down from a job; chester after became president
EFFECT- officials could no longer pressure employees for campaign contributors -
Interstate Commerce act of 1887
-the reason for this was to make railroad rates fair for all the customers
-The power of the law was was basically to regulate railroad prices
-This was the first Federal law to regulate private industry in the US
-The ICC was created to enforce regulations and investigate allegation such as fraud, deception and discrimination towards private businesses -
Sherman anti trust act
-to address oppresive business practices associated with cartels & oppresive monopolies
-what caused the act? business illegally forming trust that interfered with trade
-The act was supposed to go against big business & the trust in the supreme court, but they didn't define what trust meant
-it was useless until 1900's when trust-busters closed over 44 trust companies -
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The progressive era
-A time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social differences were exposed, many changes were made to american society -
Plessy vs Ferguson
-Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law because of the US supreme court. it upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "seperate but equal"
-The US supreme court ruled that racially seperate facilities. if equal did not violate the constitution. 14th amendment -
klondike gold rush
-out of 100,000 prospectors only 30,000 reached the region
-it was difficult to reach the klondike region and because of the terrain and harsh weather intense cold and frequent snowstorms
-the people left their jobs to become gold diggers
-many prospectors became pennyless because they had spent a lot of money that they need to get to klondike
-the prospectors did not always find gold though the hardware suppliers made a fortune selling the equipment to the prospectors -
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Muckraker Journalism
-Means to search for and 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 of the minds of the public -
Pure food and Drug act
-Provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of harmful food products and poisonous patent medicines.
-Before the passage of this law, there was no regulation in how food was produced.
-Patent medicines were being recalled due to inspections.
-muckrackers had successfully heightened public awareness of safety issues stemming from careless food preperation. -
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Social Gospel
-Religious movement that arose during the 2nd half of the 19th century, ministers belonging to the prodistent branch of good works together
-they argued that people must emulate their life of Jesus Christ
-Result of the social gospel increased immigration, urbanization of the gilded age
-Resulted in the YMCA -
NAACP
Founders
-IDA B.Wells
-WEB Dubois
Purpose
-to ensure the political, educational, social & economic equality of minorities
-group citizens of US & eliminate race prejudice -
16th amendment
-Allows the congress to levy an income tax on the people
-Its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power towards the federal gov. and away from the states
-Progressive: favoring or advancing progress and change
-Revenue-collective items of income of a person, state, etc. -
17th Amenment
-the senate of the us shall be composed of 2 senators from each state, elected by the people there of, for 6 years and each senator shall have one vote
-it changed the theory about who senators represented, shifting the focus from state govs to the residents of the states -
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Progressive (bull moose) Party
-the party lost at the national level in 1912 to the democratic nominee Pres. Wilson
-Candidates, Roosevelt, Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
-Politicians of the Republican Party wanted Roosevelt but Taft had advantage and was nominated so teddy roosevelt broke off
-Formed a new 3rd party The progressive party -
Federal Reserve Act
-The federal reserve act was created by congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible and more stable financial system
-The FRA established a permanent central banking institution. A influencial bank that is known as the federal reserve
-There are 12 federal banks in each regional location and one main central bank -
18th amendment
-caused by wide spread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans' health and causing criminal activities
-established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
18th Amendment 2
Temperance: restraint & moderation from drinking
Prohibition: nationwide ban of alcohol
speakeasy: illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
flapper-generation of young western women in 1920s who wore short skirts -
19th Amendment
-Women wanted equality
-Granted women the right to vote; a right known as a suffrage
-Helped women move closer to equality in all aspects of american life
-Women advocated for jobs, fairer wages, education, sex education, and birth control