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| Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| generally regulated trade between states |
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| Interstate Commerce Commission Act |
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| Regulated trade with railroads. It attempted to outlaw price fixing. |
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~Included unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers
~Broken up by craft (miners were with other miners)
~Brought everyone together which made people more unified
~Did not force unskilled workers to be against skilled workers
~Haymarket Riot took away Knights of Labor power
~People left to the Knights of Labor after Haymarket Riot and unions dissolved
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Ran by Samuel Gompers. Created for skilled laborers. |
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Led by Big Bill Haywood. Created for workers who didn't fit into craft unions.
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| After an economic depression, Pullman fired many of his workers and lowered wages. People put the rail cars on strike, only allowing them to transport mail. Petitioned to Eugine Debbs. Grover sent in troops to resolve the matter. |
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| Pittsburgh. On strike against Carnegie and Frick. The workers refused to leave the factory. They were armed. Frick brought in the Pinkerton Detective agency but they were of not help. Eventually the local militia came to get the workers to leave. As a result of the strike, unions became illegal in pittsburgh |
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| Intended to break up monopolies. Eventually worked against labor unions. |
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| Ruled that the monopolies could continue. |
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| capitalism is good and only the strongest survive. |
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| In charge of the American Railroad Union. |
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| created the assembly line. this allowed the price of the model t to drop to $295 |
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| capitalism was good. give your money to the people. written by carnegie. |
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| southern and eastern european |
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| Illegal immigrants and why were they illegal? |
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| Japanese and Chinese. B/c of the Chinese exclusion act. |
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| Why did the immigrants come to the US? |
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| Economic hardships in their own countries. Many intended upon making enough money to send back home or so that they could eventually return home. |
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| political parties and politicians run by bribery and business benefits |
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| fused with the democrats. they wanted the money back by silver |
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| wanted graduation income tax, to make more money, and to get rid of the middle man (also silver) |
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| Settlement house/ hull house |
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| an attempt to improve the social services of people. The hull house was founded by Jane Adams. It was a place where people could learn how to successfully live in society. |
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| City commissioner and manager plan |
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| one person no longer had control of the city. Began in Galveston texas |
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16- income tax
17- direct election
18- prohibition
19- women can vote |
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| What efforts gave more power to the people? |
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| direct primary, direct election of senators, initiative recall, and referedum |
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| required voters to vote in private |
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| progressive, governor of Wicsonisn |
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| What was the first trust that Roosevelt busted? |
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| northern securities company |
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| exposed Standard Oil Company |
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| How the other half lives, exposed the slums |
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| the jungle, exposed the meat factories |
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| Roosevelt's reform program that called for the establishment of a strong fed govt to regulate corporations, stabilize the economy, protect the weak, and restore social harmony |
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| Wilson's reform program that called for temporarily concentrating government power as to dismantle the trusts and return America to 19th century conditions of competive capitalism. |
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