Grover Cleveland: The Age Of Social Reform
Until 1842 labor unions were illegal. In 1890 the Sherman act was passed that outlawed monopolies. Because people were trying to get fair wages and fait working conditions people promoted the labor union. In order to achieve what they wanted workers would go on strike. Some failed but some also prevailed. An example of one strike that worked was one against the railroads in 1886 where the owner had to restore the wages he had cut. One that didn’t work was in Chicago against the McCormick Reaper Works that lead to the Haymarket riots where many people including police men were killed or injured.
Raising Less Corn, and More Hell Farmers organized themselves in something called the grange. In these granges famers would fight to lower …show more content…
Some of these social reformers, who came from wealth and a Christian background, were Jane Addams, Henry Lloyd and Ida Tarbell. They believed that mankind’s job was too serve others. One phrase that sums up what they stood for in “Man is inherently perfectible, only his environment prevented him from obtaining that perfect state (P.444).” others believed along the lines of Darwin that we shouldn’t help others because of the survival of the fittest.
Grover Cleveland, Presidential Giant Grover Cleveland was a well-known man because he was mayor of buffalo, NY and later the governor of NY. Cleveland clung to Constitutional principles as well as protection the citizen’s money. He was elected in 1884 in a win over James Blain. Because Cleveland was a democrat the republicans didn’t like him and the democrats didn’t like him because he acted like a republican. Once in office he had many things to deal with including military pensions. A pension was giving money so something that had acquired injuries during the war and to take care of the widows. Many people said there injures were from the war when they went and then their petitions was vetoed. Finally, when Cleveland got fed up with all the pensions he declared that would only be one more night that people could ask for pensions. That night he had to sign 400 applications with either a yes or a veto, after getting tried he vetoed as many as he
Raising Less Corn, and More Hell Farmers organized themselves in something called the grange. In these granges famers would fight to lower …show more content…
Some of these social reformers, who came from wealth and a Christian background, were Jane Addams, Henry Lloyd and Ida Tarbell. They believed that mankind’s job was too serve others. One phrase that sums up what they stood for in “Man is inherently perfectible, only his environment prevented him from obtaining that perfect state (P.444).” others believed along the lines of Darwin that we shouldn’t help others because of the survival of the fittest.
Grover Cleveland, Presidential Giant Grover Cleveland was a well-known man because he was mayor of buffalo, NY and later the governor of NY. Cleveland clung to Constitutional principles as well as protection the citizen’s money. He was elected in 1884 in a win over James Blain. Because Cleveland was a democrat the republicans didn’t like him and the democrats didn’t like him because he acted like a republican. Once in office he had many things to deal with including military pensions. A pension was giving money so something that had acquired injuries during the war and to take care of the widows. Many people said there injures were from the war when they went and then their petitions was vetoed. Finally, when Cleveland got fed up with all the pensions he declared that would only be one more night that people could ask for pensions. That night he had to sign 400 applications with either a yes or a veto, after getting tried he vetoed as many as he