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Sherman anti-trust act

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  • 1890
  • federal law
  • combo in form of trust that restricted trade or commerce among several states= illegal
  • could face fines of 5,000 + 1 yr. in jail
  • restore competition
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Edward Bellamy

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  • 1888
  • future America that was completely socialized & all economics planned out
  • compared 19th century society to stagecoach which favored few rest being dragged behind
    - caused by American competitive system
  • all citizens equal come w/o revolution or violence
  • predicted 1 trust controlled E activity
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Jacob Riis

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  • captured horror of crowded buildings
  • how the other half lives
  • 1890
  • captured slum pictures
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Jane Addams

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  • hull house in Chicago
  • cultural program
  • set up music & art classes
  • had little theater group
  • worked for public services & social legislation
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Pragmatism

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-solving problems in practical way

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Standard oil company

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  • 1870
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • every technical advance possible
  • persuaded competitors to sell out or join forces
  • Cut prices locally to force independents to sell out
  • maintained business organization by trust
    - law problems
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National Grange

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  • farmers organization
  • 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley
  • provided social & cultural benefits but then supported legislation
  • known as granger laws
    • railroad regulation
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Knights of Labor

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  • national labor organization
  • 1869
  • Uriah Stephens & Terence Powderly
  • promoted union, political reform, sociability
  • supported 8 hour days which led to violence
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Social gospel

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-early 1900’s
-focused on improving living conditions for cities poor rather than saving saving souls
-proponents advocated civil service reform, child labor laws, gov regulation of big buisness, graduated income tax
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Pendleton Act

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  • 1883
  • bringing civil service reform to federal employment
  • classified many gov. Jobs
    • required competitive exams for positions
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William James

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  • education in London, Paris, Bonn, Geneva & Harvard
  • established discipline of modern society
  • helped thousands reconcile their religion
  • came up w/ pragmatism
  • most influential philosopher
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Henry George

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  • 1879
  • progress & poverty
  • about uneven wealth in US
  • labor only way for true wealth
  • proposed property tax to confiscate uneven wealth
  • new tax would bring in a lot of money
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Interstate Commerce Act

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  • all charges made by railroad should be reasonable
  • rebates, drawbacks, long&short haul evil = all unlawful
  • railroads required to publish schedules of rates & forbidden to change w/o notice to people
  • established interstate commerce commission (supervised affairs of RR)
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Settlement houses

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  • community centers
  • 1880’s
  • located in poor districts of major cities
  • centers sought to Americanize immigrant families & provide them w/ social services & political voice
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Realism

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  • accepting situation how it is
  • tell things how they are
  • don’t sugar coat things
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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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  • 1896
  • dealing w/ racial segregation
  • separate but equal doctrine
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Ocala demands

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  • result of farmers convention in Florida
  • demanded direct election of senators
  • lower tariff rates
  • graduated income tax
  • new regulated banking system
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Mark Twain

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  • American author
  • Huckleberry Finn & atom Sawyer
  • realism
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Andrew Carnegie

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  • Poor Scottish boy
  • Carnegie steel buisness
  • sells in 1900 to JP Morgan for $500 mil
  • can build most of NY
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Booker T. Washington

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  • slave from Virginia
  • left after being freed
  • became teacher –> Tuskegee institute
  • Atlanta compromise 1875
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Progressive Education

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  • basic 3 R’s (arithmetic, reading, writing)
  • wanting to move away from basic 3 R’s
  • new teaching skills
  • offer new electives that are beneficial to the future
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Tammany Hall

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  • tweed
  • example of political machines
  • NY city
  • extorted tax payer money
  • paid more than actually cost
  • buying votes
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Hay market Square

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  • labor strike
  • threw bomb @ police
  • 8 people died
  • 1886
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Pullman Strike

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  • railroad strike
  • way Pullman treated his workers
  • cut wages
  • raised rent & prices
  • started firing people
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Homestead Strike

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  • 1892
  • Carnegie determined to break union
  • Frick stepped up production demands
  • union refused to accept conditions
  • Frick locked them out
  • Frick was shot