Chapter 2 Timeline

By Luke Douglas

  • Women’s Right Convention at Secena Falls

    Women met to discuss ways to get themselves more rights.
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    Jim Crow Era

    This era was the time when racial segregation was legal.
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    Progressive Era

    America moves into a more industrial based economy with more workers rights.

  • Booker T. Washington publishes “Up From Slavery”

    This is BTW’s autobiography.

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    He became president after William McKinley’s assassination.

  • W.E.B. DuBois established the Niagara Movement

    This movement was a black activist movement for civil rights.

  • The Jungle

    It talked about the problems with factories.

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    Once it was made a law, it made sure that companies were regulated on the quality of meat and how it was produced.

  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

    The intended job of the FDA is to ensure the health of the people who eat canned and processed food.

  • 16th Amendment Ratified

    This allowed the government to levy a tax on any source with apportioning it from the census.
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    William Howard Taft’s Presidency

    He defeated William Jennings Bryan in 1908.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy

    Many workers were trapped during a fire because of locked doors to prevent burglary.

  • 17th Amendment Ratified

    It established to popular election of senators.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

    He defeated Taft and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

  • The Federal Reserve Act established

    It is the central banking system of the U.S.
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    World War 1

  • 18th Amendment Ratified

    It outlawed alcohol in the U.S.

  • 19th Amendment Ratified

    It allowed women to vote.

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    It allowed women to vote.

  • First National Election All American Women Could Vote