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Lavish spending for show
Conspicuous consumption
Decline in monies value when more money is printed resulting in increased prices of goods and services
Inflation
Economic condition in which the volume of available money or credit decreases resulting in the decline of the price of goods and services
Deflation
Monetary system in which a nations currency is based on the value of gold
Gold standard
Political party operating in addition to two other major parties in a nation
Third party
Illegal agreements among individual railroads to divide the total volume of freight among their lines and keep rates high
Pooling
Enterprise or organization owned by and operatedCooperative for the benefit of those using its services
Cooperative
What were two Temperance organizations?
The anti-saloon league and the women’s Christian Temperance union (WCTU)
Who is Frances Willard and what three reforms did she work for?
The head of the WCTU; Made her group and affective force for causes other than temperance, such as prison reform and Protective labor laws
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A female abolitionist who decided to put the anti-slavery cause ahead of their own
Who was in charge of the national woman suffrage Association, and what did she do?
Susan B Anthony, persuaded a sympathetic senator to propose the first woman suffrage amendment to the constitution
Why do Frontier states Grant women the right to vote?
Because on the frontier women shared the hardships and dangers equally with many support for women’s suffrage was more widespread
Name to women’s labor unions?
International ladies government workers union and national women’s trade Union league
What did socialist want to change and why?
The economic system, the entire social and political system, because of the influence of Karl Marx (Socialism is the root of communism)
What books did Karl Marx write?
The communist manifesto, Das Capital (Karl Marx is the godfather of communism)
What did Karl Marx believe what happened to society?
He predicted that capitalism was doomed. Fewer and fewer capitalist would control all wealthy while the mass of people would be pushed into ranks of proletariat
