Chapter 2 timeline

By Lucask

  • Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls

    It was the convention to get women to vote
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    Jim Crow Era

    The laws that enforced segregation
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    Progressive era

    It was a lot of social activism and political reform to address the problems of the United States.

  • Booker T. Washington publishes "Up From Slavery"

    The publisher was able to hear critiques from people

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    President mickinley died

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

    It was fighting for black rights in America

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and made sure everything was sanitized

  • Publication of the Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    It was to expose diseases and the country started to be safer with food after it was published

  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

    It brought medical drugs under control and to good use

  • 16th Amendment Ratified

    It allows congress to collect tax

  • William Howard Taft's Presidency

    He defeated William Jennings Bryan

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy

    It was a big fire in New York that killed lots of people. New York's biggest tragedy

  • 17th Amendment Ratified

    It said 2 senators from each state with one vote

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

    He defeated evens Hughes

  • The Federal Reserve Act established

    The federal bank
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    World War One

  • 18th Amendment Ratified

    It banned alcohol

  • 19th Amendment Ratified

    Allowed women to vote

  • First National Election All American Women Could Vote

    The first election where women could vote

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    The 19th amendment was placed saying anyone could vote no matter the sex