Unit 2 Topic 1 Flashcards
(45 cards)
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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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- Weaken power of big business
- Worded&interpreted vaguely
- 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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- Currency stays the same products increase cost goes down
- Gold standard
- 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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- Met in Nebraska; wanted to shift power from eastern cities
- Government help farmers; wanted regulation of RRs
- 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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- 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
"Cross of gold"
| If city burns farms will help rise again
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Currency act(1900)
Set a specific oz amount for every dollar
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Social Gospel
- response to social Darwinism
| - believed that people who are poor need to relieve help
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Salvation Army
Provide material aid to people who need them as well as spiritual need
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Hull house
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Attempt to ban child labor
- big businesses and parents against it
- declared unconstitutional
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17th amendment
Made it so instead state legislature doesn't vote for senators
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Woman's Christian temperance Union
- Francis Willard
- temperance
- pushed for suffrage
- if woman wanted to get passed they needed right to vote
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Francis Willard
- Believed biggest problem acting America was alcohol
- she came up with WCTU
- end factories and tenements by ending alcohol
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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
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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
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Susan B. Anthony
- 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)
- 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)
First college for women
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Matthew vessar
Donated his money for the vessar school
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Seven sisters
Ivy League school for woman
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Belva Lockwood
Became a lawyer
First woman to argue before Supreme Court
First woman to run for president
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Margaret Sanger
Nurse
| Believed woman had the right to know about protection
