Unit 2 Topic 1 Flashcards
The party system
- republicans
- democrats
- political stalemate(BC parties aren’t talking about problems they will fix from guided age)
The politics of equilibrium
- the party system
- national government
- new public issues
National government
- few responsibilities
- sided with big business
New public issues
- tariff
- Sherman anti-trust act(1890)
Sherman anti-trust act(1890)
- Weaken power of big business
- Worded&interpreted vaguely
- Against law to do trust but didn’t really work
Congress
Writes laws
President
Enforces laws
Juridical
Translates laws
Populist
Someone trying to fit in with regular people
Inflation
Increase of prices
Agrarian
Farming
Platform
Party views
Socialism
Hands on; everything equal
Deflation
- Currency stays the same products increase cost goes down
- Gold standard
- Agrarian over production
Gold standard
Value of money “a dollar” is equivalent to gold
Farmers alliance
- collectively comfort agrarian problems
- brainstorm ways they’d help each other
- became political organization
The people’s party
- Ideas to help the regular people
- Omaha platform
Omaha platform
- Met in Nebraska; wanted to shift power from eastern cities
- Government help farmers; wanted regulation of RRs
- Reach out for people like them
Free silver
To make it into coins
More currency
Currency to inflate
Every oz of gold=16oz of silver
Election of 1892
- Grover Cleveland(has served as president; supports laize fair; big businesses)
- Benjamin Harrison(republican supports big business)
- James b weaver
Winner- Grover Cleveland
James B. Weaver
- Wants free silver+ better working conditions
Panic of 1893
- 2 railroad companies collapsed
- stock market crashed
- businesses failed across America
- four year depression(unemployment rate raised; people start believe need more than just gold)
Election of 1896
- William McKinley
- democrat convention(William Jennings Bryan)
-McKinley won
William McKinley
Republican politician
Favors gold standard
Connection w/ big business
Did what big businesses wanted
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of gold”
If city burns farms will help rise again
Currency act(1900)
Set a specific oz amount for every dollar
Social Gospel
- response to social Darwinism
- believed that people who are poor need to relieve help
Salvation Army
Provide material aid to people who need them as well as spiritual need
Hull house
- community center that provided rooms for homeless
- gave food, child care, medical health
- Jane Addams came up with idea
Jane Addams
- Came up with hull house idea
- Provide immigrants with social cultural customs
- english American table manners
- stop laize fair
- first American to win American peace prize
Lewis hine
- biggest impact on reforming child labor
- realized fewer and fewer kids went to school
- no education no better future
- exposed child labor w/ pics
- took pics in ways to show opportunity through windows
U.S children’s bureau(1912)
- examine and investigate the health and welfare of children
- representatives from gov went to factories to investigate wrong doings
- after four years they finally passed a law
Keating-Owens act (1916)
- Attempt to ban child labor
- big businesses and parents against it
- declared unconstitutional
17th amendment
Made it so instead state legislature doesn’t vote for senators
Woman’s Christian temperance Union
- Francis Willard
- temperance
- pushed for suffrage
- if woman wanted to get passed they needed right to vote
Francis Willard
- Believed biggest problem acting America was alcohol
- she came up with WCTU
- end factories and tenements by ending alcohol
Temperance
- alcohol consumption should be banned by law
- woman sang Christian songs at bars to not allow alcohol
- woman couldn’t vote so no difference
National woman suffrage association
- Susan b. Anthony
- radical stance
- opposed 14 amendment wanted it to say sex too
- began state movements for voting rights
- 1893 Colorado allowed woman to vote
Susan B. Anthony
- Created NWSA
- speech on right to vote
- tried voting for Ulysses but got arrested
- woman = citizens= citizens allowed to vote
Minor v. Happersett (1874)
- Virginia minor- defused voting rights
- happersett said she can’t vote
- she said her 14 amendment was being violated
- Supreme Court said she was right but they can’t creat laws
Cesar college (1861)
First college for women
Matthew vessar
Donated his money for the vessar school
Seven sisters
Ivy League school for woman
Belva Lockwood
Became a lawyer
First woman to argue before Supreme Court
First woman to run for president
Margaret Sanger
Nurse
Believed woman had the right to know about protection
