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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in United States. -
The Ku Klux Klan
The KKK was a secret society that terrorized African Americans.At first it wasn't to become with such violence but it did. It became really popular in the south, many African Americans were getting lynched. -
14th Amendment
Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had been freed after the civil war. -
Railroad Strike
In June of 1867, two thousand Chinese railroad workers strike for a week, demanding an end to beatings, increased wages and work hours equal with whites. Central Pacific breaks the strike when they withhold food supplies to the Chinese. In 1869, after digging 13 tunnels through solid granite in the Sierras, after losing more than a thousand of Chinese workers to snow avalanches and other hazards never mentioned in the labor contracts, the first transcontinental railroad is completed. -
15th Amendment
Granted African American the right to vote. -
Jim Crow Laws
"Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy decided to challenge the government by refusing to sit in colored car and for that he was arrested. This case was then taken to the Supreme court was decided that segregation should legal in all states. They ruled it as "separate but equal". -
Woman's Suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women’s rights movement. In the mid-19th century, women in several countries, mostly in The US. Susan B. Anthony started the National Women Suffrage Association. -
Temperance Movement
It was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk. In fact, alcohol was blamed for many of society's demerits, among them severe health problems, destitution and crime -
Gold Standard Act
President William McKinley signed the Gold Standard Act, which established gold as the sole basis for redeeming paper currency.The act halted the practice of bimetallism, which had allowed silver to also serve as a monetary standard. It set the value of gold at $20.67 an ounce and valued the dollar at 25.8 grains of gold. -
Theodore Roosevelt's Foreign Policy
The Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but now the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy within the Western Hemisphere.To keep other powers out and ensure financial solvency, President Theodore Roosevelt issued his corollary. -
Coal Strike of 1902
was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Niagara Movement
Before the NAACP was founded, Du Bois co-founded the Niagara Movement, a radical black civil rights organization that demanded both racial justice and women's suffrage. -
Square Deal
It was the slogan for the Theodore Roosevelt. It embraced Roosevelt’s idealistic view of labour, citizenship, parenthood, and Christian ethics. Roosevelt first used the term following the settlement of a mining strike in 1902 to describe the ideal of peaceful coexistence between big business and labour unions. -
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Federal Meat Inspection
prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
National Negro Committee
Concerned about the race riots and the future of black civil rights in America, a group of 60 activists gathered in New York City on May 31st, 1909 to create the National Negro Committee. A year later, the NNC became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
Formation of NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organization in the United States. During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. They would challenged the law/government and find court cases that weren't justified. -
19th Amendment
Granted woman the right to vote -
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which banned “discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.” At the same time, the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) was established to help enforce the order. -
Brown V. Board of Education
The NAACP's most famous case was Brown v. Board of Education, which ended government-enforced racial segregation in the public school system. To this day, white nationalists complain that the ruling violated "state's rights" (beginning a trend in which the interests of states and corporations would be described as rights on par with individual civil liberties). -
Civil Right Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War had officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against blacks they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South. By the mid-20th century, African Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them. -
Civil Rights Act
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
