Week TWO

By MatthewO25
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    -Harsh Working Condition

    -Children were paid 10 cents an hour for 14 days. They were assigned to simpler unskilled jobs
    -Many kids had a physical deformities due to unsafe

  • -Womens christan temperance union

    -purpose of WCTU was to combat the influence of alcohol on families & society
    -Frances Willard became president of the wctu and tuned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to achieve total abstinence

  • -Assisnation of president james garfield

    -shot came from 44 british bulldogs 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 pres refusal to appoint him to European consulship

  • -Pendleton Act of 1883

    -Provided the fed gov jobs awarded on the basis of merit and be selected through exams
    -in 1881 a mentally unstable man assassinated james a Garfield in protest against not obtaining a gov
    -publics reaction caused president Arthur to introduce this law

  • -Interstate Comerce Act

    -Supreme court ruled hat a state could not regulate RR traffic moving across state boundaries
    -The act was made to be fair to all RR customers
    -The ICC was created to monitor RR rates 8 comply w regulations

  • -Sherman Anti Trust Act

    -was the first fed act hat outlawed monopolistic business practices
    -the Sherman anti trust act of 1890 was the first measured passed by the us congress to prohibit trust
    -trust arrangement stockholders & transferred their people

  • -The proressive era

    -the progressive era was time of social and political reforms during which corruption and social differences were exposed many changes were made to American society

  • -RED RECORD

    -Ida b wells
    -wells passion was telling the country of the awful happening in the south lynchings because she lost several friends

  • -Plessy Vs Ferguson

    -Sat in a whites only part of rain
    -refused to move
    -trail evaded he 14th admenedment

  • -Pure food & Drug Act

    -Prevented the manufacture sale and transportation adulterer, mislabeled or poisonous food, drugs and medicines
    -1st of many consumer protection law
    -Law required to label any addictive drug including alcohol morphine optium cannabis

  • -NAACP

    -National association for the advancemen of colored ppl
    -an orginazation founded in 1909 to promte full raciasl equality
    -had over 6000 members by 1914

  • -16th Admenment

    -Allows the congress to levy an income tax on the people
    -Its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power toward the federal govroment and away from states

  • -Bull moose party

    • the founder of the bull moose party was Theodore Roosevelt -he was defeated in the republic primaries and broke off -the party advocated womens suffrage worker men comp an 8hr workday min wage for women federal law against child labor and federal trade

  • -Federal reserve act

    -caused by nations to strengthen how banks were run and quickly adjusted to amount of money in circulation and have enough to supply
    -gave 12 federal reserve banks the ability to print money in order to ensure economics stability

  • -Federal Reserve Act

    -caused by nations to strengthen how banks were run and quickly adjust amount of $$in circulation
    -gave 12 federal reserves banks the ability to print money in order to ensure economics

  • -18th admenment

    -speakeasy establishment to sell alcoholic beverages
    -flapper generation of young western in 1920s who wore short shirts bobbed their hair listened to jazz

  • -19th Admenment

    -women wanted quality
    -granted women the right to vote a right known as suffrage
    -helped women move closer to equality in all American life

  • 19th Amendment

    -Women wanted equality
    -Women got the right to vote
    -Helped women move closer to equality
    -Women advocated for jobs , fairer wages , education , sex education and birth control

  • -The Jungle

    -Written by Muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair
    -Focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago.
    -Magnified the sickening conditions of the packing industry
    -As result of making the public aware of thr filthy & and dangerous conditions each local gov passed its own