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The revolution
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Peoples Party
-The purpose ofb the peoples party was to increase in the money supply to help farmers and workers.
-The porposed were to mainly towards struggling farmers and desperate laborers
-the movement is associated with ranger
-james b.weaver ,was the populist candidate for president that year,he oulled over 1,041,000 -
Assassination of president Garfield
-The assassin was Charles j. Guteau
-shot at the president twice ,but only 1 bullet directly impacted him
-reason Charles shot him he was turned down from a job by the president mentally unstable believe god told him.
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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 mens avrage of 498
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Sherman antitrust act
-purpose was to prohibit trust,trust were arrangement where stat holders transferred their shares of a single group of men
-congress wanted to regulate interstate commercial and also monopolies
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The progressive era
-The progressive era was a time of social and political reform during which corruption and social differences were exposed,many changes were made to american society
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plessy vs ferguson
black train passenger homer Plessy refused to sit in a Louisianan law.
-blacks were still being treated as the interior race
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Klondike region
-The Klondike gold rush an event of immigration 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. -
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Muckraker journalism
Muckraker journalism-the term muckrake was used in the progressive era to characterize reform minded american journalist for all popular magazines as investigates journalism
-the muckrakers style of journalism articulated reform beginning in the late 19th century and gaining popularity through the first decade of the 20 century.This agenda was to raise public awareness of child labor ect. -
The jungle
writes portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
pure food and drug act
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social gospel
settlements houses like the hull house with jane addams and religious and religious groups helped start the social gospel movement.
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NAACP
-W.E.D dubious,Ida b wells
-Founded to fight the Plessy vs Ferguson
-Fought for equal rights for African Americans
-the NAACP principals objective is to ensure political ,educational,social and economic equality of all minority groups and eliminate racism and the barriers of racial prejudice. -
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Bull moose party
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Federal reserve act
-nation needed a way to strenght the ways in which banks were run
-this act divided the nation into 12 districts and established a central bank in each districts.
-the federal reserve banks could issue new paper currency in emergency stations and members banks could use the new currency to make loans to their customers by 1923 roughy 70% of the nations banking resources were part of the federal reserve system -
18th amendment
the 18th amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the us
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women's christian temperance union
-The purpose of wctu was to combat the influence of alcohol on families and society./
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vocabulary
temperance -abstenense from alchohol drink probhition.legal act of probition the manafacture storage in barrels bottles transportation and sale of alchochol -
pendlenton act
-patronage system a organizational structure