Timeline: Chapter 2 timeline

1848

Women’s Right Convention at Seneca Falls

This was the first convention women’s suffrage meeting. After this meeting the women’s suffrage movement started.

Period: 1877 to 1964

Jim Crow Era

This was an era that had a lot of segregation and whites has a lot of dislike for people of color

Period: 1897 to 1920

Progressive Era

Era in which major changes in society, political, and jobs happened and was very major. Many reforms happened during this time

1901

Booker T. Washington publishes “Up Form Slavery”

This is a autobiography about him and his time in slavery

1901

Theodore Roosevelt become President

He became president becasue as a VP the president died so he now became president

1905

W.E.B. DuBois established the Niagara Movement

This was a movement to stop segregation in America.

1906

Publication of the Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This book was about the bad things that could happen in meat packaging factories and how nothing was good at all. He was also a Muckraker

1906

Passage of the Meat inspection Act

This made inspection of meat happen much more because so many people died in those years from food poisoning

1906

Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

These people where made to make sure that foods that were being made were made out of what they are said they are made out of so that they can’t add something that is cheaper but no one would know.

1909

16th Amendment Ratified

This amendment gives the federal government the right to collect taxes

Period: 1909 to 1913

William Howard Taft’s Presidency

William Jennings Bryan

Mar 25, 1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Many women died in a fire in the building because there was no way for them to bye out becasue the owner didn’t want them to take breaks. There was also no safety rules so they also didn’t know what to do.

1912