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The Revolution
-Focused on woman's right & woman suffrage
-Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cody Stanton both were publisher &editor
-They establish the revolution during period when a split was developing with the woman right movement
-Together they provided leadership for ending slavery in the U.S. in 1865
-Woman rights movement had greatly reduced its act during civil war -
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People Party
-The purpose of the 'People Party' was to increase in the money supply to help for farmers and workers
-The proposed were to mainly towards struggling farmers and desperate laborers
-The movement is associated with grange (the farmers movement)
-The populists programs eventually became the platform of the dem party and kept alive the concept that the government is responsible for reforming social injustices
-J.B. Weaver,was the populist candidate for president that year, he pulled over 1,041,000 -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
-The purpose of WCTU was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society
-Frances Willard became president of the WCTU and tuned to organizing political means in addition to moral persuasion to achieve
-The issue was seen in society as moral,issue to create PROHIBITION thoroughest the nation -
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Harsh working condition
-Children as young as six years old working hard hours for little or no pay
-Woman mostly focused jobs in domestic service textile factories and pice work shops
-chirldren sometimes worked up to 19 hrs with one break
-woman were payed less than men 1/2 children 1/3
-worked in danger temperatures
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Assassination Of President Garfield
-The assassin was Charles J. Guiteau
-Shot at the president twice,but only 1 bullet directly impacted him
-Reason Charles shot him was he was turned down from a job by the president,mentally unstable,believe God told him to
-Charles wrote a poem,"I am going to Lordy" to Garfield about his own death
-Garfield lived for a couple months but soon died from an infection -
Pendleton Act of 1883
-Patronage system a organizational structure,usually political,in which officials are prepared to award positions to individuals based on loyalty
-merit system-promoting and hiring gov. employs based on thier ability to perform a job
-The petition act provided that the federal gov. employees be selected through competitive exams -
Interstate commerce act
_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 for the railroad rates be reasonable -
Red Record
-Ida B. wells
-Wells passion was telling the country of the awful happening lynching because she lost several friends
-Effect was the raise awareness and option of the southern region on how African American were being treated -
Plessy V.S. Ferguson
-Black train passenger homer plessy refused to sit in a jim crow car,breaking a Louisiana law
-Blacks were still being treated as the interior race
-The decision established the of " separate at equal" which allowed states to maintain segregated facilities for black & whites as long as they provided equal service -
discovery gold in the Klondike region
-The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 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
-Newspapers created a hysteria that was nation-wide and many people quit their jobs and then left for the Klondike to become gold-diggers.
-Many did not find gold many made money off the hardware store selling to the prospectors -
Muckraker Journalism
-Muckraker journalism was one magazine journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business & public life in the early 1900's
-Journalists described immigrant ghettos and the poor living conditions of tenement housing
-Muckraker condemned exploitation of child labor & white slave traffic in women
-they exposed Rockefeller oil industry & his monopolist ways -
The Jungle
-Published February 26,1906
-Written to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the united states in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
-Concerned with the exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the 20th century, which contributed to a public outcry, that led to reforms including the meat Inspection Act and the pure food and Brug act -
Pure Food & Drug Act
-Prevented the manufacture or sale of gross,misunderstand or poisonous medicine
-Was the first many consumer protection acts
-Law required labeling of any drugs that are addictive including alcohol, morphine, opium and cannabis
-Caused coca-cola to replace the cocaine in their product with caffeine
-Muckraking journalists brought these crimes to the public eye -
NAACP
-W.E.D. dubious,Ida B wells
-Fought for equal rights African Americans
-The NAACP's principle objective is to ensure political,
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16 Amendment
-Allows the congress to levy an income tax on the people
-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-connective items of income of a person,state,ect
-Tariff-tax or duty to be paid -
17 Amendment
-The senate of the U.S. shall be composed of 2 senators from each state elected by the poeple there for 6 year and each senators shall have one vote
-It change the theory about who senators represent shifted the focus from state gov to residents of states
-Direct election system of choosing political office holders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person -
The Bull Moose Party
-The founder of the Bull Moose Party Theodore Roosevelt
-It was defeated in the republic primaries &broke off
-The party advocated women suffrage,workmen compensation an eight hour workday a minimum wage for women,federal law against child labor & federal -
Federal Reserve Act
-Nation needed a way to Strengthen the ways in which banks
-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 station 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 reserve system -
18th Amendment A2
-Temperance:restrain & moderation from drinking
-Prohibition:nationwide ban of alcohol
-Speak easy illicit establishment that sis alcoholic beverages
-Flapper generation of young western women in19920s who were short skirts, bobbed their hair,listened to jazz,and dlaunted their unacceptable behavior -
18th Amendment A1
-Caused by under spread belief that consumption of alcohol was deteriorating Americans health and causing criminal
-Established the prohibition of alcoholic 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