- provide government support for needy families, regulate the food and drug industries, and regulate conditions of child labor
- What was the first state to ban alcohol
- What major event caused so much Irish migration?
- What was the primary way the temperance movement tried getting people to stop drinking?
- What region did most Germans migrate to?
- supported the passage of a constitutional amendment even though two states opposed it, had a long history that predated the Civil War, and supported bans on alcohol in different states before all alcohol was banned across the United States
- What was considered the Age of the Common man?
- What percent of the North were African Americans
- overseen by a board appointed by the president, each owned by the banks of their district, and introduced the nation to a new type of paper currency
- represented an expansion of congressional power to regulate interstate commerce
- helped eliminate many diseases once transmitted in impure meat and widened the gulf between the president and the conservative wing of his party
- led for many years by Frances Willard and at one point was the largest women's organization in the United States
- some big businesses could be efficient and not abuse power or that big businesses were dangerous and needed to be broken up to encourage competition
- Instrumental in convincing European countries like France to support the colonists during the American Revolution:
- If your grandfather or you fought in the Civil War, you can avoid the polls taxes and literacy tests basically meant to give an exemption to white people because 99% of the southern army in the Civil War was white
- Published in 1859 by Charles Darwin, On the Origin of the Species stated that humans had slowly evolved from lower forms of life.The theory of evolution casts serious doubt on the idea of religion. Conservatives stood by their beliefs of God and religion, while Modernistsflatly refused to accept the Bible in its entirety
- Used to prevent African Americans from voyaging poll taxes: if you want to vote, pay taxes but many African Americans couldn't afford this literacy tests: purposely difficult tests that only African Americans had to take, you had to get every single one right to pass
- Civil Rights Act of 1875 helped prevent race discrimination but was ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court in 1883 no more federal intervention in racial affairs of the southSupreme Court said 14th Amendment prohibited government from denying civil rights, but did not prohibit individuals from denying civil rights
- Who became president of the Republic of Vietnam in 1955
- Perilous voyage of African slaves to the New World: