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The Revolution
-focused on women's rights and women's suffrage Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton both were publisher and editor they established the rev during a period when a split was developing within the women's right movement together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S in 1963 women's rights move had greatly reduced its act during a civil war. -
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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.
-Employees were not entitled to vacation sick leave unemployment compensation of reimbursement for injuries suffered on the job. hebukbeaubfuebfhihihqiwhruiwqhrioheihduihbjbjbsdilasheuifhaliwef -
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People's Party
-The purpose of the "people's party" was to increase in the money supply to help for farmers and workers.
-The proposed were mainly towards struggling farmers and desperate laborers.
-The movement is associated with granger(the farmers movement)
-The populists program eventually became the platform of the democratic party and kept alive the concept that the government is responsible for reforming social injustices. -
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
-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 U.S.
-The power of the act is to the railroad rates be "reasonable and just"
-Interstate commerce Commission(ICC)-enforce the regulation and investigate allegations of fraud, deception and discrimination. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
-Purpose was to prohibit trust, trust were arrangement where stat holders transferred their shares to a single group of men.
-Congress wanted to regulate interstate commerce and also prohibit monopolies and activities hindered competition.
-First federal program for regulation private business.
-Stander oil felt pressure from government.
Andrew Carnegie- accumulation of great wealth by a few in any capitalist society. gsrgsrgsrge -
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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.
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Plessey VS Ferguson
-Black train passenger homer Plessey refused to sit in a Jim Crow Car, breaking a Louisiana law.
-By a 7-1 vote, the court said that a state law that "implies merely a legal distinction" between the two faces did not conflict with 13th amendment forbidding involuntary servitude, nor did it lend to reestablish such a condition.
-Blacks were still being treated as the inferior race.
-The decision established the doctrine of "separate but equal" which allowed states to maintain segregated fac. -
Red record
-Author Ida B Wells about lynching in the U.S.
-Help educate America to help stop crimes against southern Americans & help start the NAACP for African Americans rights. -
The Klondike Gold Rush
-about 100,000 Americans stampeded to the Klondike in search for only 10,000 made it Americans headed North to test their luck to take advantage of the second mayor gold rush the economy different to each group of people stores earned money from miners while the miners were not.
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Discovery gold of the Klondike region
-The Klondike gold rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,00 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.
-Many did not find gold many made money off the hardware store selling to the prospectors. -
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Muckraker Journalism
-The term Muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American Journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines as investigate journalism.
The Muckrakers style of journalism articulated reform beginning in the late 19th century and gaining popularity through the first decade of the 20th century.
-Their agenda was to raise public awareness of labor etc. bxfbxfgbfbxbxfgbFGSDG -
Pure food & Drug Act
-The cause of the pre food and drug act was because of all the musketeers like Upton Sinclair writing stories on the working conditions and how filthy the federals were.
-The power of the food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support.
-The pure and drug out they had responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption and the requirements for prescritions. -
The jungle
-Written by muckraker journalist upon Sinclair focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago to exploit the labor of men & women magnified the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry as result of making the public aware of the filthy & dangerous conditions each local gov. Passed its congress of health codes as well as the meat inspection act the pure food &a drug act. -
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Social Gospel
-Settlement houses like the Hull House with Jane Addams 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 service to the poor.
-They were criticized by others believed the social gospel movement because they did not believe their reforms could help. -The progressive Era inspired even more reform activities for example the "young men's Christian temperance union. -
NAACP
-W.E.D Du Bois, Ida B Welis
-Founded to fight the Plessey V Ferguson
-Fought for equal rights for African Americans.
-The NAACPS Principal objective is to ensure political, educational, social and eliminate racism and the barriers of racial prejudice. DFGSRGDRGRTGDRGdf -
16th Amendment
-Allows the congress an income tax on the people.
-It's biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power towards the federal gov and away from the states.
-Progressive favoring or advocating progress and change revenue collective items of income of a person state etc tariff tax or duty to be paid. -
-17th Amendment
-The senate of the U.S shall be composed of 2 senators from each state elected by the people there of for 6 years and each senator shall have the vote.
-It changed the theory about who senators represented shifting the focus from state govs to the residents states.
-Direct election system of choosing political office holded in which the votes directly ballots for the person. -
The Bull Moose Party
-The founder of the bull moose party is Theodore Roosevelt.
-He was defected in the republic primaries and broke off.
-The party advocated women suffrage, workmen's compensation an eight hour workday 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 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 reverse system. -
18th Amendment
-The 18th amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the U.S.
-It was led to rise in organized crime, as the bootlegging of alcohol became an ever-more alterative operation.
-Banned the sale & drinking or alcohol in the U.S.
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19th Amendment
-Women wanted equality.
-Granted women the right to vote known as suffrage helped women move closer to equality in all aspects of American life.
-Women advocated for jobs, wages, education, sex education, and birth control. -
Vocabulary
Temperance-Abstinence from alcoholic drink.
Prohibition-Legal act of prohibiting the manufacture storage in barrels, bottles, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Speak-easy-an illicit liquor store or night club.
-Flapper- A fashionable young women intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standard of behavior.