Prog Era

By CRR1123
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws that targeted African Americans in the south to keep them in a lower position both in political power and economically,
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    A law was passed to restrict the Chinese to the US. Because of competition with jobs.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Regulation of the trading of separate nations and the states.
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    The first woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Chicago's first social settlement. Taught immigrants oodles of great information for immigrants.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    The first act was made against big business and its attempts to monopolize.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Income Tax
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Initiated the Separate but equal doctrine.
  • Rise of KKK

    Rise of KKK

    founded by ex-Confederate soldiers, the Klan moved beyond just targeting blacks, and broadened its message of hate to include Catholics, Jews and foreigners
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike

    First Labor Dispute. Coal miners fought for better wages and shorter workdays.
  • The History of Standard Oil

    The History of Standard Oil

    A book Writen by Ida Tarbell. Expose on oil companies
  • Square deal

    Square deal

    Conservation of natural resources, Control of Business, Consumer productions
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle

    A Book that exposed the horrifying conditions of the meatpacking industry on accident
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Prohibited the sale of misbranded livestock and derived products as food
  • Antiquities Act

    Antiquities Act

    Allows presidents to make national landmarks/ monuments
  • The Food And Drug Act

    The Food And Drug Act

    Brought to monitor the food and medicine business to prevent the selling of bad food and to prevent snake oils.
  • Niagara Movement

    Niagara Movement

    African American intellectual group for full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans
  • Muller V Oregon

    Muller V Oregon

    Muller wanted women to longer in his business but ruled it unconstitutional due to affection women's health
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    Taft wins the election making 4 consecutive republicans in office.
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, white and Black activists, in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    Writers who wrote exposes on big business.
  • Urban League

    Urban League

    advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York. Lead to fire safety standards to be implemented.
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    Agency responsible for OSHA wages
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Centralized Bank of America was put in place to establish stability.
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Lowered the tariff on imported goods to 26%(from 40%) and made a tax to tax peoples who made over 3000 a year.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    (verbatim)The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    Used to regulate business practice helped strengthen early antitrust laws.
  • Federal trade Commission

    Federal trade Commission

    Put into place to go against trusts and promote consumer production
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    Made to be anti-trust and to prevent unfair competition in the market.
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare

    Stalemate on the western front. trenches where the soldiers camped and would cross no man land and typically die.
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois

    Sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, pan-africanist
  • The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

    KKK Propaganda tells the story of the creation of the klu klux Klan
  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk

    Brought attention to WWI to the American eye. Germany pulled America's ire
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Democrat barely beat his opponent Charles Hughs
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    Prohibition of the selling and consuming of alcohol
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    Germany asked Mexico to fight America to keep them out of Europe. The US intercepted the telegram.
  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson went before congress to declare war against Germany.
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Child labor laws went to the states
  • Sedition Act

    Sedition Act

    Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Wilson-Fourteen Points

    A proposal made by Woodrow Wilson to Congress to prevent such a war from happening again.
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    Day to celebrate Germany's surrender. November 11, 1919
  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Versailles Peace Conference

    Happened to discuss terms of peace after WWI
  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Senate rejected it, formally ended the war. Rejected du in part to Wilson disregarding the wishes of the senate.
  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson Stroke

    Guy suffered a stroke. December 28, 1919.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    Women are allowed to vote
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Forum in charge of resolving national disputes.