Chapter 2, “United States History”

By abbyfraney13

  • Women’s right convention at Seneca Falls

    First women’s right convention and launched women’s sufferage movement
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    Jim Crow era

    It was a time where laws were I forced to help racial segregation in Southern United States
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    Progressive Era

    Political reform across the United States

  • Booker T Washington published “Up From Slavery”

    This was BTWs autobiography of his life

  • Theodore Rosevelt elected as president

    McKinley was assassinated so Teddy assumed president.

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

    A black civil rights organization that wanted political, civil, and social rights fir African Americans

  • Publication of the Jungle by Upton StClair

    Meat packing company was terrible and killing lots of people and a man went in working there and wrote a book about how terrible it was working back then. Brought to be the meat inspection act and food and drug inspection act

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    Prohibited the sale of alulterated or misbranded livestock

  • Creation of the food and drug administration

    To ban foreign and interstate traffic of adulterer or mislabeled food and drug

  • 16th amendment ratified

    Congress can lay and collect taxes on incomes
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    William Tafts presidency

    He defeated William Jennings Bryan

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy

    A huge fire in NYC that destroyed all the industries

  • 17th amendment ratified

    Senate is 2 senators from each state for 6 years

  • Woodrow Wilson elected president

    He defeated Charles Evans Hughes (former governor of NY)

  • Federal reserve Act established

    Created the central banking system in the United States
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    World War 1

  • 18th amendment ratified

    Banned manufacturing of intoxicating liquor

  • 19th amendment ratified

    Right To vote no matter your sex

  • Ratification of the 19th amendment

    Right to vote can’t be denied by sex

  • First national election all American women could vote