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Harsh Working Conditions
-Children were pain 10 cents an hr. for 14 days they were assigned to simpler unskilled jobs.
-Many kids had physical deformities due to unsafe work conditions and lack of sunlight and exercise, death rates went up
-People lived in slums where 5-9 people lived there, made it easier to catch a disease or sickness
-Max 12hrs. per day for women they earned 1/3 of what men received or sometimes half
-Women worked in factories and mills, very unsafe, treated unfairly seen as servant/mistresses -
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The Revoloution
-Focused on woman's rights & woman's suffrage
-Susan B Anthony & Elizabeth cady Stanton both were publisher & editor
-The established the revolution during a period when a split was developing within the woman's rights movement
-Together they provide leadership to stop woman's suffrage
-woman's right movement had reduced at the turn of the country -
Assassination of president james garfield
-Shot came from a 44. British bulldog which the assassin Charles j. Guiteau, had purchased specifically because he thought it would look impressive in a museum
-He had killed Garfeild because of the president's refusal to appoint him to a European consulship
-The assassin was known around Washington as an emotionally disturbed man
-He was convinced that was god's work -
interstate comenerce act
-Supreme court ruled that a state could not regulate RR traffic moving across state boundaries
-The act was made to be fair to all RR customers
-The act required RR rates "reasonable & just", but did not empower gvt. to fix specific rates
-The ICC (interstate commerce commission) was created to monitor RR rates & comply with regulations -
Sherman Antitrust Act
-Purpose was to prohibit trust, trust were arrangements where stockholders transferred their shares to a single group of men
-Congress wanted to regulate interstate commerce and also prohibit monopolies and activities that hindered competition
-First federal program for regulation private business
-Andrew Carnegie>Accumulation of great wealth by few in any capitalist society -
Populist People's Party
-Their idea was economic reforms increased in money supply and gradual tax increase
-Wanted direct vote for senetors
-Cause of these ideas was they wanted greater voice government and populist programs kept alive the concept that the government is responsible for social injustice -
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Social Creed
-Created by council of churches
-BELIFS it was a person moral duty to help homeless
-RESULTS inspired even more reform actives (ymca) young mens christian association -
Plessy v. Ferguson
-Black train passenger, home Plessy refused to sit in Jim Crow car, breaking Louisiana law
-By a 7-1 vote, the court said that the state law that "implies merely a legal distinction" between the two races did not conflict with 13th amendment forbidding involuntary servitude, nor did it reestablish such a condition
-The discussion established the doctrine of "separate but equal" witch allowed states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as the provided equality -
National Association for the avancment of colored people (NAACP)
-Purpose of the was to establish reform to building strong communities in African American area's
-Helped premote civil rights for AF. AM.
-Played a party in ending segregation
-Ida B. Wells, W.E.B Du bois were both founder's -
16th Amendment
-Allows congress to levy an income tax on the people
-Its biggest effect was it shifted the balance of power toward the federal government and away from state
-Progressive favoring or advocating progress and change
-Revenue: collective items of income of a person, state ect.
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The Jungle
-Written by muckraking journalists upton sinclair.
-Focus was the human condition in the stockyards of Chicago to exploit the labor of men and women for profit.
-Magnified the sickening conditions of the mean-packing industry
-As a result of making the public aware of the filthy and dangerous conditions, earn local gov. passed its own set of health codes as well as the meat condition act and the pure food and drug act. -
Pure food and drug act
-Prevented the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or poisonous food, drugs or medicines
-Was the first of many consumer protection laws
-The law required to label any drugs that are addictive including alcohol, morphine, opium and cannabis
-This law caused coca cola to have to replace cocaine in their products with caffiene