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Unit 2 Topic 1 Flashcards

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The party system

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  • republicans
  • democrats
  • political stalemate(BC parties aren’t talking about problems they will fix from guided age)
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The politics of equilibrium

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  • the party system
  • national government
  • new public issues
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National government

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  • few responsibilities

- sided with big business

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New public issues

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  • tariff

- Sherman anti-trust act(1890)

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Sherman anti-trust act(1890)

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  1. Weaken power of big business
  2. Worded&interpreted vaguely
  3. Against law to do trust but didn’t really work
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Congress

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Writes laws

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President

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Enforces laws

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Juridical

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Translates laws

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Populist

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Someone trying to fit in with regular people

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Inflation

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Increase of prices

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Agrarian

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Farming

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Platform

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Party views

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Socialism

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Hands on; everything equal

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Deflation

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  1. Currency stays the same products increase cost goes down
  2. Gold standard
  3. Agrarian over production
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Gold standard

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Value of money “a dollar” is equivalent to gold

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Farmers alliance

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  • collectively comfort agrarian problems
  • brainstorm ways they’d help each other
  • became political organization
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The people’s party

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  • Ideas to help the regular people

- Omaha platform

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Omaha platform

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  1. Met in Nebraska; wanted to shift power from eastern cities
  2. Government help farmers; wanted regulation of RRs
  3. Reach out for people like them
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Free silver

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To make it into coins
More currency
Currency to inflate
Every oz of gold=16oz of silver

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Election of 1892

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  • Grover Cleveland(has served as president; supports laize fair; big businesses)
  • Benjamin Harrison(republican supports big business)
  • James b weaver

Winner- Grover Cleveland

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James B. Weaver

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  1. Wants free silver+ better working conditions
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Panic of 1893

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  • 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)
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Election of 1896

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  • William McKinley
  • democrat convention(William Jennings Bryan)

-McKinley won

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William McKinley

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Republican politician
Favors gold standard
Connection w/ big business
Did what big businesses wanted

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William Jennings Bryan

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“Cross of gold”

If city burns farms will help rise again

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Currency act(1900)

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Set a specific oz amount for every dollar

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Social Gospel

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  • response to social Darwinism

- believed that people who are poor need to relieve help

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Salvation Army

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Provide material aid to people who need them as well as spiritual need

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Hull house

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  • community center that provided rooms for homeless
  • gave food, child care, medical health
  • Jane Addams came up with idea
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Jane Addams

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  • 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
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Lewis hine

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  • 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
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U.S children’s bureau(1912)

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  • 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
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Keating-Owens act (1916)

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  • Attempt to ban child labor
  • big businesses and parents against it
  • declared unconstitutional
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17th amendment

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Made it so instead state legislature doesn’t vote for senators

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Woman’s Christian temperance Union

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  • Francis Willard
  • temperance
  • pushed for suffrage
  • if woman wanted to get passed they needed right to vote
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Francis Willard

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  • Believed biggest problem acting America was alcohol
  • she came up with WCTU
  • end factories and tenements by ending alcohol
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Temperance

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  • alcohol consumption should be banned by law
  • woman sang Christian songs at bars to not allow alcohol
  • woman couldn’t vote so no difference
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National woman suffrage association

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  • 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
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Susan B. Anthony

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  • Created NWSA
  • speech on right to vote
  • tried voting for Ulysses but got arrested
  • woman = citizens= citizens allowed to vote
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Minor v. Happersett (1874)

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  • 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
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Cesar college (1861)

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First college for women

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Matthew vessar

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Donated his money for the vessar school

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Seven sisters

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Ivy League school for woman

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Belva Lockwood

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Became a lawyer
First woman to argue before Supreme Court
First woman to run for president

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Margaret Sanger

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Nurse

Believed woman had the right to know about protection

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