Unit 1 Semester 2 Flashcards
The Populist Party supported
-lands should be owned by individuals, not corporations or railroads.
-the concept that the government should own the railroads.
-building postal banks to allow the common person to save for the future.
Explain Booker T Washington’s Education of African Americans movement
What/Why: To educate African Americans
Causes: Not enough education and economic opportunities for black people
Effects: Taught African Americans vocation; Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Explain Jane Addams’ Social Work Movement
What/Why: Settlement House Movement
Causes: Democracy didn’t extend beyond politics; Poverty; Lack of Education
Effects: Hull House; Educated women and children; NAACP; NAWSA; Helped end child labor
Explain WEB Du Bois’ African American Civil Rights movement
What/Why: Civil Rights Movement
Causes: Discrimination towards the black population; Lack of education; Jim Crow Laws
Effects: Niagara Movement, Atlanta Compromise; NAACP; NAWSA; Helped decrease Child Labor
Explain Margaret Sanger’s Women’s Rights movement
What/Why: Rights for Women, Use of Birth Control
Causes: Suffrage Movement; Temperance Movement; Women were “property”; No options for birth control
Effects: 18th Amendment; Protests Movement; Unions; 19th Amendment
Explain the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 & Clayton Antitrust Act 1914
What/Why: Clayton- Outlaws price discrimination and interlocking directorates; Sherman- Prohibits unfair monopoly
Causes: Clayton Act was to fix weaknesses in Sherman Act
Effects: Promoted competition and economic efficiency
Explain the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and 1911 & Meat Inspection Act inof1906
What/Why: More restriction on food for better quality
Causes: Unsafe food and factories; Unsanitary protocols; Unsanitary processing conditions
Effects: Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food, drugs, meat, and meat products
Explain the Department of Labor of 1913
What/Why: Improve working conditions
Causes: Bad working conditions; Poor economic opportunities
Effects: Promoted and developed the welfare of working people; Improved working conditions; Advanced opportunities for profitable employment
Explain the Federal Reserve Act of 1913
What/Why: Made the Federal Reserve System
Causes: Panic of 1907; Fragile banking system
Effects: Established a central bank; Gave government more control over inflation
Explain the 16th Amendment from 1913
What/Why: Progressive income tax
Causes: The government lacked efficiency
Effects: More money you make the more you pay in taxes
Explain the 17th Amendment from 1913
What/Why: Direct election of senators
Causes: Election corruption
Effects: Citizens can directly vote for senators during elections
Explain the Keating Owen Act of 1916
What/Why: Child labor law
Causes: Children working instead of learning in school
Effects: Restricted child labor to anyone 13 yrs old or less; Banned products from factories using child labor; Limited child works shifts
Explain the 18th Amendment from 1919
What/Why: Prohibit the production of alcohol
Causes: Temperance Movement; WCTM; Alcohol Caused poverty, child/spousal abuse, decreased productivity, and political corruption
Effects: Prohibition of manufacturing, transporting, and selling alcohol; seen as a failure
Explain the 19th Amendment from 1919
What/Why: Women wanted to vote
Causes: Women Suffrage Movement; Protest Movement
Effects: Women got the right to vote
