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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was the president and developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He preached self-help, racial solidarity, and accommodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and prosperity. -
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W.E.B. Dubois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was all kinds of things including a sociologist, socialist, historian, and civil rights activist. He led the Niagra Falls Movement. -
Tuskegee Institute
Founded by Booker T Washington in 1881, the Tuskegee Institute is most popular for training African American teachers and is now a private, coeducational institution of higher learning. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A law that was passed to suspend Chinese immigrants from coming to the United Laws. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
This court case ended slavery and provided legal justification for segregation. "Separate but equal" -
Interstate Commerce Act
Railroads were able to control their markets and manipulate rates to their own advantage. As a result of the failure of states to regulate railroads, the United States Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887. The Interstate Commerce Act required that railroads charge fair rates to their customers and make those rates public. -
Jane Adams- Hull House
Jane Addams founded Hull-House to offer social services to the community including a safe haven for immigrants, legal aid, an employment office, childcare, and training in crafting and domestic skills. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Trust Act was the first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. It falls under antitrust law. The law was created to prevent the concentration of power into the hands of a few large enterprises to the disadvantage of smaller enterprises. For example, the act attempted to prohibit business practices that attempt to monopolize the market. -
McKinley Assassinated
On September 14th, 1091, 25th president William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz. He shot twice and killed him. He was executed in an electric chair. -
Coal Miner Strike
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 was one of America's largest industrial strikes and threatened a national coal shortage. Their terrible work conditions and long hours were the cause of the strike. The unions were willing to negotiate but the coal miners refused to participate in the conciliation process until President Roosevelt intervened. It resulted in a victory for the hard-coal miners with a 10% increase in wages and an hours reduction in their working day. -
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Taft Wins
William Taft was the 27th president of the U.S. He signed the first tariff revision since 1897. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
Writer Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first great female journalists in the United States. Her best-known work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, exposed the questionable business practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, which had been formed when Rockefeller combined all his corporations in an attempt to reduce competition and control prices in the oil industry. -
Teddy Roosevelt- Square Deal
The Square Deal refers to Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic policies that focused on the control of corporations, consumer protection, conservation of natural resources. -
The Jungle Published
The Jungle was published in 1905 by Upton Sinclair to expose the terrible conditions of the meat industry. -
Niagara Movement
The Niagra Movement is when a group of African American intellectuals, led by W. E. B Du Bois, fought for Black rights during the Progressive Era. -
Muckrackers
Muckrakers were journalists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. Their work influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act established strict sanitary requirements for the meat packing industry and gave the U.S. Department of Agriculture the right to inspect and monitor slaughtering and processing operations. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act law protects historic, prehistoric, and scientific features on public lands. It designated national monuments that reflect the full measure of our history. -
NAACP formed
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization that was formed in New York City by white and Black activists, partially in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. -
Food and Drug Act
The Food and Drug Act prevents interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs. -
Muller v. Oregon
Muller v Oregon was an Oregon law that set a maximum of 10 hours a day for women employed in factories and laundries. The law is an attempt to provide some protection for workers from the harsh consequences of industrialization -
Urban League
A nonprofit organization that works to help African Americans and other minorities to achieve equal opportunities in education, employment, housing, etc. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned down, due to the disposal of an unextinguished match or cigarette butt in the scrap bin. It killed 146 workers, leading to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers. -
Department of Labor Established
The Department of Labor was established to improve people's working conditions, advance their opportunities for profitable employment, protect their retirement and health care benefits, help employers find workers, strengthen free collective bargaining, ect. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System which provides the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. It Introduced the concept of a central bank. -
16th Amendment
The Amendment was passed in 1913 to establish a federal income tax. -
17th Amendment
The 17th ADmendemnt allowed the people to directly vote for U.S senators. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Underwood Simmons Tariff law reduced the average tariff on imported goods. Wilson believed that this action would encourage American manufacturers to increase efficiency and become more competitive with their prices. It is also referred to as the Revenue Act. -
Federal trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission works to prevent fraudulent and unfair business practices. They also provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid scams and fraud. It was passed in 1914 by Woodrow Wilson. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act helped regulate the economy by prohibiting business monopolies. It also prohibits actions that lead to anti-competitiveness. Outlaws price discrimination prohibits tying contracts, prohibits stock acquisition of competing corporations, -
Trench Warfare
A war tactic where both sides dig trenches to fight. -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation is a film full of racist propaganda, starting with the Civil War and ending with the KKK riding in to save the South from black rule during the Reconstruction era. -
Lusitania sunk
The Lusitania was hit with a German U-boat torpedo and sunk. Many American citizens were killed. This incident is a cause of World War I. -
Wilson Elected
Woodrow Wilson was our 33rd president of the US. He created the League of Nations after WWI. He allowed women the right to vote and passed laws to decrease the harsh working conditions on women and children. -
18th amendment
The 18th amendment banned the sale, manufacturing, or transportation of alcohol for consumers. -
19th amendment
The 19th Amendment allowed both men and women the right to vote. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret communication that came from the German Foreign office in January of 1917 and suggested that there be a military alliance between Mexico and Germany if the United States entered the Great War. -
Wilson Asks for War
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked to go to war with Germany. -
Espionage Act
Signed by Woodrow Wilson on June 15, 1917, this act made it a federal crime for any person to interfere with or attempt to undermine the U.S. armed forces during a war, or to in any way assist the war efforts of the nation’s enemies. -
The Rise of the KKK
The Klu Klutz Klan is a white supremacist hate group that directed its hate towards African Americans. The revival of the Klan was inspired by Birth of a Nation, director D. W. Griffith’s violently anti-black film of 1915 that promoted the southern “Lost Cause” view of the Civil War. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
The court case that led to the making of child labor laws. Changed our society entirely. -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 limited the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during World War I. It was viewed as the government overstepping the bounds of 1st Amendment freedoms. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's statements of peaceful negotiations to use to end the war. -
Versailles Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War I. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
President Wilson delivered the treaty to the Senate on July 10, 1919, and then addressed the chamber. The Senate then considered a resolution to approve the treaty without reservations of any kind, which failed on a 38-53 vote. After 55 days of debate, the Senate had rejected the Treaty of Versailles. -
Wilson Stroke
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him dead until the end of his presidency in 1921. -
League of Nations
Established January 10, 1920, their goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy, and improving global welfare. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws began in 1877 when the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn’t prohibit segregation on common modes of transportation such as trains, streetcars, and riverboats. Later, in 1883, the Supreme Court overturned specific parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, confirming the “separate but equal” concept. During the ensuing years, states passed laws instituting requirements for separate and equal accommodations for blacks on public modes of transportation. -
Armistice Day
First anniversary of the end of the war between Germany and US.