History of the United States

Thomas Nast worked to expose the illegal activities of William "Boss" Tweed.

The supreme court ruled in cases affecting the rights of Chinese immigrants in a fair manner. In its ruling, the supreme court that the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the country should be limited. However, any Chinese immigrants who were in the country would have security of tenure in their jobs.

The Assassination of President James Garfield

Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives." He exposed the lives of the many poor Americans living in the slums of the city. These treachers include tenements in which many people crammed together to live in, hot beds which were the poorly made mattresses that they slept in, called hot beds because one person would go to work (usually in a factory) while the other slept and then they would rotate, so the beds would always be warm, and there were often no windows or it was one or two rooms with bunks and a makeshift stove in the middle of the room. Children would be playing in the dirty streets and illness was easily spread.

political corrupting-=-= novanet!

it required hiring certain federal employees because of expertise, not political connections , novanet !!

to allow citizens to select candidates for elections

They were muckrakers who dramatized the need for reform

Women did not have the legal right to vote

Bryan toured the country and spoke directly to the people