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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. -
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Jim Crow Era
This was an era that had a lot of segregation and whites has a lot of dislike for people of color -
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Progressive Era
Era in which major changes in society, political, and jobs happened and was very major. Many reforms happened during this time -
Booker T. Washington publishes “Up Form Slavery”
This is a autobiography about him and his time in slavery -
Theodore Roosevelt become President
He became president becasue as a VP the president died so he now became president -
W.E.B. DuBois established the Niagara Movement
This was a movement to stop segregation in America. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
16th Amendment Ratified
This amendment gives the federal government the right to collect taxes -
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William Howard Taft’s Presidency
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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. -
17th Amendment Ratified
This amendment said that now the senate would be composed of 100 senators and 2 per each state -
Woodrow Wilson elected President
He beat Taft and Roosevelt -
Federal Reserve Act established
This is basically a federal park and it is something to keep certain grounds untouched -
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World War 1
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18th amendment ratified
This one said that alcohol is now to be illegal in the US but it ended up being repealed -
Ratification of the 19th amendment
This was the amendment that let all people vote -
First National Election All American Women Could Vote