Progressive Era

  • Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    Cult created to show White Power by people who hated blacks
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    Made for the training of teachers in Alabama
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese Laborers
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Law designed to regulate railroad industry
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    House that people went to, to provide community services
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed monopolistic business practices
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Upheld segregation laws of public facilities as long as they where still equal in quality
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    The assassination of the 25th president McKinley, William.
  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Miners when on strike because they wanted higher pay, short work days
  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    Ida Tarbell exposed Standard Oil
  • Niagara Movement

    Niagara Movement

    Social and Political change for African Americans
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    Journal showed he harsh conditions and lives of immigrants
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Law establishing,first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    Consumer Protection law
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    Landmark decision made by Supreme Court. Women were required to work less hours so men could work more.
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic William Jennings Bryan
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed

    Civil Rights Organization
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it
  • Urban League

    Urban League

    Urban conditions of among African Americans
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Deadly industry disaster
  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Domestic program:3 goals, Conservation of natural resource, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Changed federal income tax and lowered tariff rates
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    Government that manages everyone's work
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Two Senators Each state, elected by the people
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Introduces a central bank to oversee monetary policy
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    Bans any unfair methods of competition
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    Defines unethical business practices
  • Federal trade Commission

    Federal trade Commission

    Enforcement of the antitrust law and promotion of consumer protection
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    educator and an author
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    Epic Drama film
  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk

    Germany waged submarine warfare
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice and gov. Charles Evans Hughes
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare

    Large trenches in the ground, housing soldiers. Used to protect them from explosions
  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson delivered this address to a joint session of Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Court shut down law regulating child labor
  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Principles of peace used in negotiations for ww1
  • Sedition Act

    Sedition Act

    permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United State
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    Veterans Day. The day we thank the people who gave their lives for this country
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    Banned the use of alcohol
  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Senate rejected treaty, caused the end of ww1
  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson Stroke

    Suffered a stoke
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    Journalist exposed institutions and corrupt leaders
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    Made to help maintain world peace
  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Versailles Peace Conference

    Establish terms or peace
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    Prohibited denying people the right to vote, on the basis of their sex
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois

    Civil Rights activist
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation