Gilded Age and Progressive Era Project

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Gilded Age and Progressive Era Project
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Below is a good video clip on coal miners strike
http//www.britannica.com/nobelprize/art-68532
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Growth of industry and wealth in a capitalist
economy
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1911
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Election Reforms
Australian Ballot-   Direct Primary- Direct
election of Senators (17th)-   Recall-  
Initiative- referendum-  
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Courts and Labor
Lochner v. New York  
Muller v. Oregon-  
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TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
CARRY NATION-
WCTU 18TH AMENDMENT
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TERMS Capitalism
 
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Big Business
Big Business
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TERMS Monopoly Trust Protective
Tariffs
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Excerpt pg. 269
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RESULTING PROBLEMS

• Unfair wages
• Poor working conditions
• Long work hours
• Child Labor
• Unfair pricing / business practices making it
  hard to compete
• High tariffs, costs passed on to public
• Hazardous products sold to public
• Little to no regulation
• Farmers pay high freight and land taxes

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Exploding s of Immigrants
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Where were they coming from?
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Corrupt City Governments 

• I.              
• TERMS
• Boss-
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•   Political Machine-
• Boss Tweed-
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RESULTING PROBLEMS

• Immigrants easily convinced to return corrupt
  politicians to office
• Bribery and other forms of election fraud assure
  the most corrupt power
• Graft lined pockets of the corrupt instead of
  being used to meet expanding cities needs
• Practice of awarding jobs to supporters (spoils
  system) resulted in unqualified political leaders
• Government (all levels) unresponsive to needs of
  rapidly changing society

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Problems experienced by women and minorities

• Women not allowed the right to vote (suffrage)
• Women denied access to male-dominated professions
  
• Women victimized by high rates of alcohol abuse ?
  believed to disrupt the family and led to crime
  and poverty
• Increased discrimination and racial segregation
  throughout country

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Corrupt National Governments
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 Spoils
System- Garfields assassination 1881