today mr bruns started off the class by telling us how he is gonna call all of our parents monday nite before the ITED test for history. and then he explained the extra credit points how they work.
*Taxation/Banking- They started taxing people and things during and after the civial war because they were trying to raise money for supplies and other things for the war. The Underwood Act substanially reduced tariff rates for the first time since the civial war. This act took place in 1913. To get this signed he summonded congress to a special session so he could plee his case. He summonded them in a special session becuase in some cases if it was sedualed before hand then manufactored lobbies would talk to senators and congress men and government officals so they would vote no.
*Aid Organizations-helping poor- Florence Kelly played a major part in helping children and changing things for the poor. Florence kelly was a major advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She helped in the Illinois Factoy Act in 1893. this act prohibited child labor and limited women's work hours. probation of alcoholic beverages was a way to help the poor people uplift their spirts. Another important women in history is Frances Willard she is from a small midwestern religous group. This group was trying to get salonkeepers to stop selling alchol. When women started visting inmates in prison and asylums and working for suffrage is when they justified giving them voting rights. women were very important in our history not just as mothers but doing other things too!
*Muckrakers-the muckrakers were people who investigated things that was going on. they were also known as journalists. they got the bad name because they would bring out the negative things out in people and negative parts in the stories. The journalist became hated people becuase of what they wrote in the papers.
sources:
http://www.taxanalysts.com/museum/1861-1865.htm
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