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The Revolution
-focused on woman's rights & woman's suffrage
-Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton both were publishers and editors
-they established the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman's right movement
-together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S. in 1865
-woman's rights movements had greatly reduced its act during the civil war -
red record
AUTHOR: Ida B. Wells
-about lynching in the U.S.
-helped educate america to help stop crimes against southern African Americans and help start the NAACP for African American's rigths -
woman's christian temperance union(WCTU)
-WCTU fought for prohibition, for the banning of alcohol beverages, wanted immigrants and poor city dwellers to uplift themselves
-Frances Willard help transform the union from a small mid-western religious group to a national organization
-aroused tension between immigrants bc their customs included alcohol consumption -
James Garfield
-term was less than 4 months then died
WHO KILLED HIM-Charles Guiteau killed him bc he believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diploma corps.
RESULT-C.G. WAS CONVINCED OF MURDER & HANGED ON JUNE 30, 1882. IN 1883 CONGRESS PASSED THE PENDICTION ACT. -
pendleton act
-patronage system is a practice a political party after winning gives you jobs to its supporters
CAUSE-president Garfield was shot 2X by Charles Guiteaun whom turned a job down Chester Arthur became president
-merit system is the process or promoting and hiring gov.employees based on their ability to perform a job
EFFECT-officials could no longer pressure employees for contributions -
Interstate commerce Act of 1887
-railroads rates to be ''reasonable and just'' but didn't empower the gov. to fix specific rates
-designed to regulate the railroad and industrial businesses
-this was the 1st federal law to regulate private business
-this law created a federal agency, the ICC RR rates & regulations -
Sherman Antitrust Act
-this act made it illegal to form a trust (turned their stock over to a group or person to control the company to have absolute power)Rockefeller/stander oil
-the act prohibited monopolies having good competition with other companies in their industry.
-companies under the Sherman act was not easy because it didn't clearly define terms such as ''TRUST" -
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THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
-the progressive era was a time of social an 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) -
populist party
PLATFORMS-graduated income tax-8hr work day-restriction in immigration-popular vote for senators
CAUSE-demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and give ppl a greater voice in the Gov.
CANDIDATES-Republican party=William McKinley-president
Democratic party=William Jennings Bryan-congressman
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social creed
-created by council of churches
BELIEFS-it was a person moral duty to help homeless
RESULTS-inspired even more reform activities(YMCA) young mens christian association & (WCTU) women christian temperance union -
Plessy V. Ferguson
-tested the constitutionality of segregation
-supreme court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal & didn't violate the 14th ammendment
-"separate but equal'' allowed states to maintain segregated facilities as long as they provided equal services
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The Klondike Gold Rush
-About 100,000 Americans stampeded to the Klondike in search of fortune. Only 10,000 made it.
-Americans headed north to test their luck,to take advantage of the second major gold rush.
-The economy was different to each group of ppl. hardware stores earned money from miners. while the miners not finding any gold claims, making them lose money. -
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Muckracker
-muckraker journalism was one of the magazine journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business & public life in the early 1900s
-journalists described immigrant ghettos & poor living conditions of tenement housing
-muckraker condemned exploitation of child labor & white slave traffic in woman
-they exposed Rockefeller oil industry & his monopolist ways
-authors like Sinclair exposed the meat packing industry which led to the meat pacing act and drug act -
pure food and drug act
-prevented the manufacture,sale and transportation adulterated, mislabeled or poisonous food, drugs and medicines
-was the first of many consumer protection laws
-the law required to label any addictive drug,including alcohol,morphine,opium,cannabis.
-this law required Coca-Cola to remove the cocaine and replace it whit caffeine -
The jungle
-Written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago to exploit the labor of man & woman for profit
-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 own set of health codes as well as the meat inspection act & the pure food & drug act -
NAACP
NAME FOUNDERS-Ida B. Wells, W.E.B Du Morris
PURPOSE OF ORG.-to ensure the political, educational, social & economic equality of minority
group of citizens in the U.S. & eliminate race prejudice
C_A_U_S_E
to make whites aware of the need for racial equality
E_F_F_E_C_T
first group in the U.S. formed by ppl of African descendant to work for there rights -
16th amendment
-allows the congress to levy an income tax on the ppl
-its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power toward the federal gov. and away from the states
progressive:favoring or advocating progress and change
revenue:collecting items of item of income of a person, state, ect.
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 ppl there of, for 6 yrs and senator each senator shall have one vote
-it changed the theory about who senators represented, shifting
the focus from state govs to the residents of states
-direct election:system of choosing political office holders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person -
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bull moose party
-the founder of the bull moose is Theodore Roosevelt
-he was defeated in the republic primaries & broke off
-the party advocated woman suffrage, work mens comp. an 8hr wrk day, a minimum wage for woman, federal against child labor & fed trade... -
federal reserve act
CAUSE-established a form of economic stability in the U.S. thru the intro. of the central bank.
POWER--max employ. stabilizing prices, moderating long terms interest rate
EFFECT-the banking system of U.S. changed and helped create the fed. reserve which we use today in banking systems -
18th amendment prt.1
-caused by widespread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal activity
-established the prohibition of alcohol beverages in the U.S. by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -instead of reducing crime, it created massive organized crime movements and corrupted public officials who took bribes -
18th amendment prt.2
TEMPERANCE: restraint+moderation from drinking
PROHIBITION:nation ban of alcoholic beverages
FLAPPER:generation of young western woman in 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their unacceptable behavior -
19th amendment
-woman wanted equality
-granted woman the rigth to vote=a vote known as suffrage
-helped woman move closer to equality in all aspects of american life
-woman advocated for jobs, fair wages, education, sex education, and birth control -
HARSH WORKING CONDITIONS
-factories were being built, they were in need of workers
-they would wrk frm 14-16 hrs?6 days a week
-unskilled workers will get paid $8-10 a week get paid 10 cents an hr for 14 days kids were used for simpler work
-factories of cotton trade