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Progressive Era (Womens Suffrage (Suffrage definition: Gaining women the…
Progressive Era
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Prohibition
Definition:The action of forbidding something, especially by law.
Banning of the manufacture, distribution, & sale of alcohol.
It reduced Poverty, Home violence, and crime.
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Education
Texas Peoples Party: A group known as the Jeffersonian Democrats split from the Democratic party in 1890 and in 1892 fused with the Populists to form the People's party which later drew some strength also from Republicans, Socialists, and Prohibitionists.
Populist party: Populist party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processors, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests.
These created new parties to protect the people that had the "unfair advantage" against the ambitious entrepreneurs and high class people.
Rebecca Henry Haze
1st female to organize a suffrage Group in Texas. She founded the Texas equal rights association in Dallas in 1893.
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Government
Terrell Election Law: In 1895 and 1903 the first attempts were made to regulate the nominating procedure of political parties. With the enactment in 1903 of the Terrell Election Law, elective offices were established and made mandatory for all parties that had received as many as 100,000 votes in the previous election. Mostly the democratic party was affected.
Primary Election: a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election. Until the election of 1948, Texas ballots did not list the presidential candidates by name but instead listed the electors for each party. Since the individual electors’ vote totals varied slightly, given here is the highest vote received by any elector for a candidate. Thanks to this Abraham Lincoln was elected.
Business/railroad.
Texas railroad Commision: The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry, and surface coal and uranium mining. Despite its name, it no longer regulates railroads. It has an annual budget of $79 million.
James Hogg: He was the James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas. He was also associated with populism.