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By Owen Gross

  • Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls

    This was the firsts women rights convection in the U.S.
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    Jim Crow Era

    This was an era where federal laws offered observable protection of civil rights for former slaves and free blacks.
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    Progressive era

    This wasa movement that addressed problems with industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.

  • Booker T. Washington publishes "Up From Slavery"

    This is when the book “Up from Slavery” was written.

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President (1901)

    TR becomes president of the U.S.

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

    This was a black civil rights movement.

  • Publication of the Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    This was a book written about the life of a man working in a meat factory.

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    This was an act passed that put a meat inspector in each meat factory.

  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

    This was an administration that helped make sure that what was being produced my companies was safe for the people.

  • 16th Amendment Ratified

    Federal income tax was passed and ratified.
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    William Howard Taft's Presidency (1909-1913)

    Taft was president for 4 years.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy

    This was a tragedy that happened in one of the company’s factories.

  • 17th Amendment Ratified (1912)

    Voters could now vote directly for senators.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President (1912)

    Wilson was elected president and defeated Taft and TR.

  • The Federal Reserve Act established (1913)

    This was the U.S. central bank and provided a safer financial system.
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    World War 1 (1914-1918

    The worlds First World War

  • 18th Amendment Ratified (1917)

    Prohibition of alcohol passed and ratified.

  • 19th Amendment Ratified (1919)

    Woman can now vote

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    This made woman be able to vote.

  • First National Election All American Women Could Vote

    This was the first election where all woman could vote.