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Lindsay Zadunayski
Lindsay Zadunayski
1869
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This is important because the group became a huge union with lots of power and impact
1872
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This is important because she was jailed; women were not ever allowed to vote
1874
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This is important because they were a big group in pushing for prohibition, but were exclusive to Christian women
1877
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This is important because the supreme court case increased the size and power of government by allowing them to regulate private companies if it served the public interest, such as with health inspectors
1877
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This is important because wages were cut by 10%, so workers campaigned to get them back, but Hayes called in federal troops. It spread to a nationwide strike with 100 dead and immigrant scabs, and the American people supported Hayes' decision
June 21 1877
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This is important because ten men who were found guilty of murder as Molly Maguires by a partial jurt were hanged
1879
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This is important because it shows just how bad housing was for the immigrants who lived in tenements; they were crowded, didn't have much natural light, and had no bathrooms
1880
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This is important because it decided the new president, and the Republicans campaigned with a stalwart vp, Arthur, and a half-breed president, Garfield, and won.
1880
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This is important because Charles J Guiteau, a stalwart, killed Garfield so that that Arthur would be president and the spoils system would be in place.
1880
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This is important because immigrants from Italy, Slovakia, Greece, Poland, etc, started coming to America instead of just the Western Eruopeans, and they were much more unpopular and didn't assimilate into the communities because of their different cultures and religions
1882
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This is important because it showed that racism was not only directed to African Americans, but also to China, and laws were passed to keep them out
1883
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This is important because although Arthur was a stalwart who believed in the spoils system, he signed an act for civil service reform
1884
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This is important because the candidate f the Equal Rights Party was the first woman to run a full campaign for the presidency of the United States
1884
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This is important because Cleveland beat Blaine for President, making him the first elected democrat since the Civil War
1884
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This is important because the parties were on the same ballot for the first time, so many Republicans secretly voted for the Democrat candidate
1884
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This is important because Mugwumps were Republicans who voted Democraticaly because of Blaine's shady "Burn This Letter" deals.
1885
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This is important because the building in Chicago by Architect Louis Sullican meant that with cities attracting more and more people, they could now grow vertically instead of just horizantally
1886
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This is important because it was formed by Samuel Gompers, but had now governemtn support, was very exclusive, and had no unity, making it not very effective
1886
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This is important because the group The Knights of Labor were very popular and succesful, but after they threw a bomb that killed seven soldiers, they were labeled as anarchists, lost all their credibility, and made it so that there were only several small unions for laborers
1886
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This is important because the massive present from France for America's 100th birthday took a long time to take apart, ship across the ocean, and put together at Ellis Island
1887
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This is important because the members of the Nativist and Know-Nothing parties extremely disliked the new immigrants from Eastern Europe, and bonded against them
1888
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This is important because Benjamin Harrison beat Cleveland as Cleveland lost the states of Indiana and New York from the last election, and there was very clear sectionalism
1888
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This is important because the article by Lillie B. Chase Wyman on factory workers in Rhode Island gave poor women and children a voice, too
1889
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This is important because the establishment formed by Jane Addams immensely helped immigrants and other poor people
1889
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This is important because Andrew Carnegie's book argued that the wealthy had a duty to prperly administer their money to produce the most beneficial results for the community
1890
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This is important because by 1920 it had over a million member, and became a vehicle for moderate white women's political activism
1890
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This im important because the book by Jacob Riis, and its pictures, raised much sympathy for the struggles of immigrants, and led to reforms
1890
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This is important because it the act brought down many unions, but did succeed in bringing down the Standard Oil Trust
1890
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This is important because they weren't willing to accept people from a variety of backgroungs, and it limited their effectiveness.
1892
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This is important because Cleveland beat Harrison and Wealer, making him the first person to be president in two unconsecutive terms.
1892
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This is important because the speech, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was too strong of an approach and didn't gain the women any rights
1893
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This is important because they had many important characters, such as Carrie Nation, and had the slogan "the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine," making them the first group of women to think of using their sex to their advantage. However, many of them were married or old, so it wasn't super effective
1893
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This is important because it shows that women from all different backgrounds looked for reform in similar manners
1893
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This is important because Cleveland repealed the Sherman Silver Purchasing Act, which was bad for farmers because they had no silver standard and went into debt
1894
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This is important because the railway strike was done by the American Railway Union, a group exclusive to white males, so it was not effective at all
1894
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This is important because it was the first time the idea of an income tax, even if only 2% was applicated, and it greatly pleased the populists
1895
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This is important because Booker T. Washington was an influential leader for African Americans, and this speech helped gain him supporters who agreed that it was important for former slaves to be economically independent
1895
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This is important because J.P. Morgan lent $65 million in gold to the government, which fixed the deflation problem and supported the gold standard
1895
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This is important because the supreme court case ruled that the income tax was a direct tax and unconstitutional, rendering the Income Tax Act of 1894 powerless
1896
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This is important because William Jenning Bryan's speech won him the Democratic Nomination for the election, and made him very popular with farmers and populists who supported the silver standard
1896
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This is important because Mckinley, Republican, beat the Democrat candidate William Jennings Bryan, as even though Bryan got more states, they were the small ones and didn't have enough electoral votes
1896
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This is important because by 1914 the group claimed 50,000 members in one thousad local clubs.
1897
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This is important because it became a vehicle for moderate white women's political activism
1898
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This supreme court case is important because it was the first time the 14th amendment applied to people other than former slaves; he was born here, so considered a citizen and not forced to leave
1900
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This is important because Mckinley beat William Jennings Bryan again, and by a lot as Brayn was preaching antiimperialism, and Mckinley was actually really popular
1900
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This is important because Frank L. Baum's book, though easily mistaken for a simple story, was an analogy for the Progressive Era and featured many notable characters, such as Mckinley and William Jennings Bryan
1900
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This is important because the organization of black Baptist women embraced over one million members
1902
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This is important because it was the first time a president used troops to help the workers instead of force them back into labor
1902
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This sequel to how the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis was important because it further illuminated the struggles that the immigrants had to go through in the slums
February 1902
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This is important because Carrie Chapman Catt's speech because it helped to unionize females around one common ideal
1903
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This is important because this departemtn would use the Sherman Anti-Trust Act how it was intended
1903
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This is important because it was legislation to end the practice of rebates on the railroads, decreasing monopoly
1903
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By Ida Tarbell, this was important because it showed the corruption of Standard Oil, and was one of the most important exposes of the twentieth century
1903
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This is important because the book features W. E. B. Du Bois' Of Mr Booker T. Washington and Others, which expressed his distaste for Washington and his yearn for social equality
1904
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This is important because the book by Lincoln Steffens exposed the shame of St Luois, which he likened to that of New York City
1905
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This is important because the supreme court case ruled that states could interfere in the freedom of contract only if long hours constituted a clear health risk either to the workers themselves of to the general public
November 25, 1905
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This is important because it was analogous to Ida Tarbell and her dismanteling of Standard Oil
1906
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This is important because it gave the interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum rates
1906
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This is important because it changed the meat packing, and many other food, industries, making them more healthy for Americans by making health and sanitary regulations.
1908
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This is important because the supreme court case, where Florence Kelley hired Louis Brandeis to argue against Muller, had the ruling that woman's physical structure and the performance of materbal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence
1908
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By Lugenia Burns Hope, this was important because it provided many needed services to the people of the area
1910
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This is important because it fueled the feud between William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt since Roosevelt and him were friends and strong conservationalists
1910
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This is important because once the women from these two different points of view joined forces, they were able to get a lot of reform and progress made
1910
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This is important it let the rest of the country know how her settlement house gave meaning to the live of those who served in them, leading to the establishment of many more around the world
1911
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This is important because the book, written by Frederick Winslow Taylor, decreed that every act of a workingman can be reduced to a science, and it also created the idea of an assembly line.
1911
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This is important because J.P. Morgan and Standard Oil were a huge monopoly, and Ida Tarbell the muckraker dismantled them in the magazine McClure's
March 25 1911
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THis is important because 146 women died in this horendous fire at the shirt factory
1912
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This is important because Taft, runnign under the Republican nomination, and Roosevelt, under the Bull-Moose Party nomination, split the Republican vote and let Wilson get elected
1912
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This is important because it was the first time people organized to fight for the rights of children, and be anti-child labor
1913
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This is important because it made the income tax legal, and was the end of tariffs
1913
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This is important because the Act created the central baking system of America
1913
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This is important because it made it so that senators were elected, not appointed
1914
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This is important because they 'regulated monopolies', and were the effect of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
1917
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This is important because Margaret Sanger argued sexual education for lower class women so that they wouldn't have to get pregnant so much, but Roosevelt thought that was race suicide and pamphlet sending to be obscene
1918
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This is important because the research project by Thomas and Znaniecki demonstrated how city life overwhelmed rural immigrants and to their social disorganization
1919
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This is important because it was the amendment for prohibition
1920
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This is important because it gave women the right to vote
1920
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This is important because the Bureau was a large force in pusing for women's rights, and had a ton of members
1927
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This is important because the supreme court case ruled Virginia's laws of sterilization to be constitutionial, making criminals, idiots, rapists, and imbeciles everywhere get sterilized
1935
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This is important because it set the precedent for Aid to Dependent Children