Chinese Exclusion Act

By christianross17

  • 18th amendment

    U.S. constitution banned manufacture

  • Sedition Act

    imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing false scandalous or malicious writing against the government

  • Tuskegee Institute

    founded by Washington, was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans

  • Booker T. Washington

    educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal

  • Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    millions of Americans banded together in defense of white,

  • W.E.B. Dubois

    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was an African American writer,

  • Jim Crow Laws

    were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation

  • The Jungle

    A immigrant who came to the United States in the hope of living the American dream

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    A law the prohibited all immigration of Chinese labored

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    it was to regulate commerce with foreign nations and railroads

  • Muckrackers

    Group of american writers identified with the pre world war

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    First Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Landmark 1896 U.S. supreme court decision that upheld constitutionality of racial segregation

  • McKinley Assassinated

    He was murder on this day

  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Was a strike by united mine workers

  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    A book that exposes about standard oil

  • Niagara Movement

    civil-rights group founded in 1905 near Niagara Falls

  • Food and Drug Act

    Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs

  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat

  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    The first general legal protection of cultural

  • Muller v. Oregon

    Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men

  • Taft Wins

    He was elected

  • naacp formed

    is a civil rights organization in the United States

  • 16th Amendment

    The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes

  • Urban League

    American service agency that was founded to eliminate racial segregation

  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Fire broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory

  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Three C's was his goals

  • 17th amendment

    The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer

  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates

  • Department of Labor Established

    to help workers,job seekers

  • Trench Warfare

    Land warfare using occupied fighting lines largely comprising military

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    The FTC protects consumers by stopping unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices in the marketplace.

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    act defines unethical business practices such as price-fixing and monopolies

  • Federal trade Commission

    The FTC protects consumers by stopping unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices in the marketplace

  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish

  • Lusitania sunk

    British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic

  • Wilson Elected

    Woodrow Wilson elected 33rd quadrennial presidential

  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson secured a German promise

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign

  • Espionage Act

    made crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S

  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor.

  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    A proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

  • Armistice Day

    the anniversary of the armistice of November 11, 1918,

  • Wilson Stroke

    Had a stroke that left him partially paralyzed

  • Versailles Peace Conference

    To establish the terms of the peace after World War I.

  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    President Wilson hand-delivered the treaty to the Senate

  • 19th amendment

    Women right to vote

  • League of Nations

    First worldwide intergovernmental organisation

  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Settlement house in Chicago Illinois found by Jane Addams