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Harsh working conditions
women of the working classes would usually be expected to go out to work often in the mills or mines
- In the early 19th century there was restriction on the age of workers, this led to children as young as 8 or 9 being led to work 12 or more hours a day.
-working conditions were often unsanitary and the work was dangerous
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Assassination of James Garfield
assassin - Charles J. Guiteau
why-
-Thought God had told him to shoot the president
-he helped him win the election with a speech
-formulated the delusion that the speech was a key factor in the presidents victory
-asked to be rewarded with the consulship ( chairman of the senate) in Paris
Result
-doctor kills president because they didn't wash their hands
- this helped create the pend lenton act -
The populist movement
The populist movement was a revolt by farmers in the south and Midwest against the Democratic and republican parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties
-for over a decade farmers were suffering from crop failures, falling prices, poor marketing, and lack of credit facilities
-The key platform to the populists party where unlimited coinage of silver to raise for prices and make loan repayment easier -
The Pendleton Act
Patronage system is a practice after winning and election gives government civil services jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives
-Merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees base on political connections
-Pendleton act was created in response to pres. Garfield assassination and civil service commission was created to back up the new acts and or put in to action. -
The interstate commerce act
-addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business, the act became law with the support of both major political parties and pressure groups from all regions of the country the interstate commerce commission was created, by the act to entrance these regulation and investigated allegations of fraud deception and discrimination gov. This was the 1st law where government interfered with big business. -
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peoples party
populists were convinced that rich industrialists and bankers haf a strangle hold on the government, like granges before them. populists wanted government to have a large role ending oppression, injustice, and poverty. The populists elected five senators and presidential candidate Jerome Kerby. he received 44 president of the votes in the 1896 election. Populists Platform-unlimited coinage of silver direct elections of senators work day. -
Plessy V. Feguson
Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the "separation but Equal" doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana Law.
-Allowed "separate but Equal" also known as segregation , to become law in the U.S. Jim Crow Laws, which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against American-Americans, spread across U.S. -
Red Record
author
-Ida B wells
Central Topic
-Informing Northerners that lynching in the US was occurring down in the south
Effect
-African American moved to New York
-Wells anti-lynching campaign -
The Klondike Gold rush
was a migration by an estimate 100,000 set but only 30,000 arrived to the Klondike region of the Yukon in the Northern western Canada between 1896 and 1889
- Around 4,000 found gold, many gave up due to the difficulties of the journey and returned home some were not able to survive the extreme temperatures and died.
-the greatest economic impact prospectors passed through settlements and the money from supplies they purchased boosted the economy considerably -
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mu cracker journalism
one who inquires into and publishes into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruptions among political and business leaders
-exposed unsafe working conditions political corruption,and social injustices -
pure drug and food act
reporters started to expose harmful ingredients in certain foods and medicines , such as coca-cola had cocaine in it originally
-the gov then began enforcing the production & distribution of consumer products by founding the food & drug act (FDA)
-products were later required to label the harmful ingredients later on remove them -
NAACP
The mission of the National association for the advancement of the colony people is to ensure to political education , social economic, equality of rights of all person and to eliminate discrimination
-The cause was to discuss the racial justice for African Americans
-The effect led the legal rights to overturn the justice politics although they had a few cases over the years.