HST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Samuel Gompers, National Pension Scheme, Rutherford B. Hayes
Document Summary
Changes in the us economy infrastructure banking and land use. Concerns over industry and ties between business. Creates new wave of protest efforts that will begin to reshape us society. Boundaries of citizenship and citizenship rights and policed and exclusionary. Women are at the heart of these reform movements. In the progressive era, people want more and less democracy. Eagerness - people throughout society are interested in enacting changes. Women are a growing force for reforms. Should have a role in bringing about progress. A lot of different types of people were progressives. Leads to dramatic social and political change. Greenbackers are a political party that ran nationally from 1876 to 1884. The party was named after the non gold backed paper money known as greenbacks. The greenbackers believed that unbacked currency would help businesses and assist farmers by making debts easier to pay. They also encouraged the use of paper money to inflate the money supply.
