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Political Party Leader that were currpt
Offered Welfare Survices to new immigrants in exchange for votes and favors had no bid contracts
Ex. Boss, Tweed |
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Labor of unskilled laborers in 1880
Goal Worker Ownership their strike dirupted
society they had bad publicity, unskilled |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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A union of skilled workers, American Born
Wanted Higher wages better hours and conditions
"Bread of Butter" union
Samuel Gompers; Successful
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(1893 - 1896) - Profits declinded and there were layoffs and altered wages
Workers Joined American Railway Union (Sypathetic Strike)
Pinkerton detective agency brought in broken up by injunction |
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Survival of the Fittest
Wealthy White people more fit
Helping Poor, Justified Wealth |
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(1867) - Oliver Kelly
Produced co-ops to buy and sell in bulk meeting combination evangelicalism politics
Part of populist movement |
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| Assimilations Native Americans into white culture, broke up tribes and tribal property |
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(1892-1894) Frank Baum:
Symbolism for the Populist Movement
Scare Crow= farmers, tin man= workers, witch of the east=eastern establishment silver shoes = silver issue |
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Runs James B Weaver; graduated income tax
Regulation of RR's end to protective tariff
Free canage of Silver |
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| 1896 Presidential Election |
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William Mckinley vs. William Jennings Bryan
Accepled the silver Issue
End of the farmers as a strong political force |
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Willkiam Randolph Hearst (NYJ) and Joseph Pulitzer (NYW) decied to make money from achievement, raised circulation, lowered prices
Sories on Cuba Controversey |
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US ship in Havanna Harbor Exploded and Sank on
Feb. 15,1898 blamed by spain by Yellow Press |
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US Pressure Control of foriegn policy Military base at Guantanamo Bay Defines Teller Amedment going into the Spanish American WAr
US will not make Cuba a possession |
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"Seperat but Equal" allowed segregation of public
facilities |
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Slave Born
Educated at Tuskegee Institution
Self Help Approaches to Back Response
Work on Economics First then civil rights |
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Harvard Professor founder of NAACP
Cocused on Civil Rights |
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Upton Sinclair
Murckracker - investigative journalism
Inspired Pure Food and Drug Act under TR |
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| Pure Food And Drug Act (1906) |
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| TR, Regulate food and Pharmaceuticats |
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Clayton Anti - Trust Act (1914)
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| Passed Under Woodsaw Willson outlawed interlocking directorates |
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| US will intervenue military in the Caribbean whenever necessary because of "misconduct" |
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Mexico, Sailor Squadron arrested
US Admiral Mayo made rediculaous demands
They did not comply
US invaded Veracruz |
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| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
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Rules of war favored surface ships (British)
German Submarines could not follow rule set war |
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Germany declared huge area to be war zone
Sunk HMS Lusitania American Outrage |
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| Article 10 (League of Nations) |
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Part of the Treaty of Bersailles
All members must take action against an aggressor |
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