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Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation -
Booker T. Washington
Educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of now Tuskegee University, and one of the most influential spokesmen for Black Americans. -
Tuskegee Institute
Institute founded by Booker T. Washington under a charter from the Alabama legislature for the purpose of training teachers in Alabama -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned immigration of Chinese workers -
Interstate Commerce Act
Regulated railroad rates, requiring them to be "reasonable and just". -
Hull House
A settlement house established by Jane Addams in Chicago that served new European immigrants. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibited monopolies and outlaws the restriction of competition. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Supreme court case that ruled "separate but equal" (segregation) was constitutional. -
McKinley Assassination
The assassination of 25th president William McKinley -
Coal Miner Strike
United Mine Workers of America hold a strike and demand shorter workdays and higher wages, as well as the recognition of their union. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to domestic issues with three goals: "conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection" -
Muckrakers
Muckrakers were journalists who exposed, in detailed accounts, the corruption and injustice of political or economic figures throughout the progressive era. -
The History of the Standard Oil Company - Ida Tarbell
A book written by muckraker Ida Tarbell exposing Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. This work led to the supreme court decision that ruled Standard Oil was violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
W.E.B. Dubois
A sociologist, socialist, historian, and civil rights activist. -
Niagara Movement
A movement of African-American intellectuals. Was organized to oppose racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Led by W. E. B. DuBois. -
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Novel that portrayed the terrible working and living conditions of immigrants in America. -
Food and Drug Act
Banned the sale of misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Ensures meat products meant for consumption are slaughtered and processed under federal regulations and bans the misbranding of meat. -
Antiquities Act
Protection over natural or cultural resources. Gives the president the ability to declare places to be national monuments. -
Taft Wins
Election of 1908, Bryan v. Taft. Taft wins with an electoral vote of 321. -
Muller v. Oregon
Supreme court case that limiting the working hour of women did not violate the 14th amendment. -
NAACP formed
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: civil rights organization. -
Urban League
Civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory that killed 146 people. Led to worker protection laws and factory inspection laws. -
Woodrow Wilson Elected
Member of the Democratic party who served as the 28th president of the United States. -
Department of Labor Established
Organization that is responsible for occupational safety, wages, and hour standards. -
Federal Reserve Act
Created the Federal Reserve System (twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks jointly responsible for managing the country's money supply). -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Re-established a federal income tax lowered tariff rates. -
16th Amendment
Allows Congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census -
17th Amendment
Gave people the right to directly elect their senators. -
Federal Trade Commission
Established to enforce antitrust law and protect consumers. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Prevented unfair methods of competition. -
Trench Warfare
War tactics used in WWI that used occupied fighting lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
The Birth of a Nation
A silent film, the first blockbuster Hollywood hit. -
Rise of KKK
White Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, not only anti-Black but also took a stand against Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners and organized labor. -
Lusitania Sunk
British ocean liner sunk carrying American citizens by a German U-boat. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson delivers an address to a joint session of Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany -
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
Struck down a federal law regulating child labor because production was not commerce, and thus outside the power of Congress to regulate. -
Sedition Act
Extended the 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 -
The Fourteen Points
Proposal made by Woodrow Wilson in a speech outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again. -
Armistice Day
Marks the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany -
18th Amendment
Prohibition: the banning of producing and selling alcohol in hopes of decreasing violence and lessening corruption. -
Versailles Peace Conference
Formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
Woodrow Wilson Stroke
Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated until the end of his presidency in 1921 -
19th Amendment
Women's suffrage. -
League of Nations
The first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace