Progressive era

Plessy to NAACP

By Carolyn_sidelinger
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    Sherman Anti-trust Act

  • Carnegie Hall Opened

  • Homestead Steel Act

  • Panic of 1893

    Panic of 1893

  • Pullman Strike

  • Pollock VS. Farmers Loan & Trust CO.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  • Plessy VS. Ferguson

    Plessy VS. Ferguson

    It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
  • USS Maine Explodes

    USS Maine Explodes

  • Spanish American War begins

  • National Consumers League established

  • Gold Standard Act

  • President William H. McKinley is shot

    President William H. McKinley is shot

  • Coal Strike of 1902

  • United States acquires Panama Canal zone

    United States acquires Panama Canal zone

  • Square Deal Policy

  • Heburn Act passed

  • Pure Food and Drug Act created

  • Great White Fleet

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation established

    Federal Bureau of Investigation established

  • NAACP Founded

    NAACP Founded

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans

  • Mann-Elikins Act strengthens

  • 17th Amendment ratified

  • New Mexico and Arizona become states

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

  • Federal Trade Commission created

  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

  • The United States enters WW1

    The United States enters WW1

  • President Wilson's Fourteen points

    President Wilson's Fourteen points

  • 18th Amendment ratified