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100
African American were treated unequally in society.
What is descrimination?
100
African American activists wanted this for all blacks.
What are equal rights?
100
This addition to the constitution granted women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
100
This addition to the constitution imposed income taxes on citizens.
What is the 16th ammendment?
100
what peice of clothing was Jefferson Davis wearing when he was captured by the Union?
What is a dress?
200
Women's rights activists felt that this was a basic right that was denied to them.
What is Women's Sufferage?
200
In order to achieve equal rights for blacks these laws needed to be removed.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
200
People directly elected their represenatives in government as a result of this amendment.
What is the 17th amendment?
200
A book written by Upton Sinclaire about the meat industry.
What is The Jungle?
200
What occupation did Benjamin Franklin hold when the first got to the colonies?
What is a printer?
300
This was an immoral practice used by industries that took advantage of child laborers.
What are child labor abuses?
300
Labor unions fought for this to be safer in their place of work.
What are better working conditions?
300
These laws ended the immoral practice of employing childeren as laborers.
What are child labor laws.
300
A piece of legislature that prevented coordination between buisnesses of the same industry.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
The application of survival of the fittest to American society.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
People got fed up with thier local and state governments abusing thier power.
What is political corruption?
400
This would bring about institutions like the YMCA, public libraries, pools, and increase of settlement houses.
What is the protection of social welfare?
400
Labor unions used this to gain benifits. Examples: Haymarket Square, Pullman, Homestead
What is a strike?
400
A demonstration in Chicago in support of striking workers where 8 police officers and an unknown number of civilians died.
What is the Haymarket square riot?
400
The 19th Ammendment.
What was a huge blow to the egos of american men?
500
Labor unions formed in order to get more money for their workers.
What are higher wages?
500
Jim Crow Laws, Segregation, lynching, and descrimination fall under this broad term.
What are social injustices?
500
Presidents Sherman and Clayton implimented these to get rid of trusts.
What are Antitrust Acts?
500
The policy of the government in reguards to buisness and society in gereral at this time.
What is laissez-faire?
500
The period of time where america started moving toward equal rights and better working life.
What is the Progressive Era?