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Citizens were given a plot of 160 acres and were allowed to live on it as long as they paid a registration fee and promised ti improve the land and thrive off of it.
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Reform-minded journalists who exposed institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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It was a law that restricted Chinese immigrants entering the US.
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An American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents.
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Group who wanted to stabilize income and equality for the citizens. They mainly tried to reform American economical policies and end capitalism.
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He presidency lasted from 1901 to 1909. He established almost double of the amount of national parks at the time, and set up wildlife sanctuaries.
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a civil-rights group near Niagara Falls dedicated to social and political change for African Americans.
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The first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the US.
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Congress passed an Act where meat being processed in facilities and coming from factories would be checked and inspected due to prior bad conditions.
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The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which checked and made sure food was good for consumption.
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A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court where women were given lesser work-hours than allotted to men.
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The 1908 United presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election. Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
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A civil rights organization that works as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
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That the Congress has the power to collect taxes on income, from whatever source.
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a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the US
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A fire which was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
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The Senate will be composed of two elected Senators from each state, and will serve for 6 years.
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His presidency ran from 1913 to 1921. He led a progressive movement by fighting for central governments and leveled out the playing field for national and state governments.
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It established economic stability in the US by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
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A piece of legislation passed by the Congress that defines unethical business practices.
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an independent agency whose main mission is to protect consumers and enforce civil antitrust laws.
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A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
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British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat, killing 1,198 people on board out of the 1,959
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a telegram offering America territory in Mexico, in return for joining the German cause.
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Basically 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.
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An act permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the US.
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The prohibition of transporting and consuming alcohol in the US.
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the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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Women gained their rights and the right to vote.
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State and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
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The first railroad that had reached from the east coast to the west coast was built.
