HIST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Church Terrell, Coal Strike Of 1902, Northern Securities Company

• School: Iowa State University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 222
• Professor: Stacy Cordery

Document Summary

Social justice reform: mary church terrell (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:272)lu(cid:271)s. Labor legislation: 8 hour work day, minimum wage, workers compensation, better working conditions, end child labor. Florence kelley: (cid:862)to li(cid:448)e (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s to (cid:271)e (cid:271)usy, to (cid:271)e (cid:271)usy (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s to have power, to have power means to ha(cid:448)e (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ility(cid:863) Settlement house movement: hull house in chicago. Temperance reform: attempt to ban alcohol, frances willard wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s ch(cid:396)istia(cid:374) te(cid:373)pe(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e u(cid:374)io(cid:374) Immigrants are connected to drinking in the american mind. Civil rights: web dubois, niagra movement 1905. Northern securities company: sherman anti-trust act. Proved the government is bigger than any corporation. Anthracite coal strike: united mine workers. Recognition of union: bosses would not meet with workers. Hepburn act: revises interstate commerce act, railroad industry regulation, president helps write bill, promotes bill in address to nation. Gifford pinchot vs. muir: conservationism, for us or for the future.