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The first institution of higher learning for African Americans -
Provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating the the United States -
Passed this law to regulate railroad operations to stop growing monopolies. Had major support from both parties -
Draws on the legacy of international peace activist, feminist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jane Addams and the other social reformers who lived and worked alongside their immigrant neighbors to create social change and expand access to democracy -
First measure to prohibit trusts, an arrangement by which stockholders in several companies transfer their shares to a single set of trustees -
Supreme Court ruling that upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine. Plessy refused to sit in a car for black people -
McKinley's campaigns were funded by major business interests, and while in office he permitted an unprecedented wave of merger activity without much enforcement of antitrust laws -
Strengthened moderate labor leaders and progressive businessmen who championed negotiations as a way to labor peace. It enhanced the reputation of President Theodore Roosevelt -
Wanted to expose corruption in government through descriptive language and helped pass the Food and Drug Act -
Primarily targeted racism in his polemic, which protested strongly against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment -
After "The Jungle" the government passed a law that protected consumers from bad food and drugs -
Makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
Reflected 3 major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
The first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands -
Taft wins the election against William Jennings Bryan -
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population -
An interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells -
Journalists and novelists who sought to expose corruption in big business and government -
Became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans -
A fire that killed 146 workers, mainly women, and renewed sense of urgency to the labor movement and to other groups working to improve women's and immigrants' rights in the workplace -
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt -
Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy -
Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor -
An educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now Tuskegee University, and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans -
Film's success was both a consequence of and a contributor to racial segregation throughout the U.S. In response to the film's depictions of black people and Civil War history, African Americans across the U.S. organized and protested -
Prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex -
State and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation