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13 Cards in this Set
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Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
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2nd best-selling novel of century, about society in 2000 as perfect harmony. People govern selves and plit profits. Prompted Utopian community Point Loma.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Developed to regulate RRs
First independent regulatory agency. Marked govt intervening in Big Business for public. Prohibited discriminatory rates and made sure RRs were safe. (limits on passengers etc) |
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Tammany Hall
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NYC political machine
Manhattan patronage |
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Pendlleton Civil Service Reform Act
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Created commission to reform and professionalize civil service.
Less about patronage. Parties cannot tax their civil employees to raise for campaigns. |
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Populism
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Most significant challenge to 2party system
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Grange
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derived from farm, lower class southern and **western take on the Masons
"Patrons of Husbandry" farmers |
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Granger Laws
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State laws enacted in the Midwest in the 1870s that regulated rates charged by RRs, grain elevators & other middlemen.
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Southern Farmers' Alliance
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Largest of several organizations that formed in post-Recontrs South to advance farmers' interests
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Great Uprising
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'77, first nationwide strike, against RR
hauanted govt for years to come ---> national guard |
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Frances E. Willard
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most famous American woman.
WCTU temperance, suffrage against wage system, etc. plans included all govt offices having both a woman and man occupant |
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Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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led by Frances E. Willard, promoted teetotalism.
Few southern organizations with interracial cooperation |
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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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Reunited in 1890s from former two halves of movement.
Pushed heart of movement into Great Plains, political bridge among women in other movements |
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People's Party
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