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17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
W.E.B. Dubois
William Edward Bernhardt Du Boise was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-African, author, writer and editor. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The United States passed a federal law signed buy President Chester, which ban immigration of Chinese labor. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A States Federal law made to manage the railroads industry. -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was confounded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce -
Booker T. Washington
American educator, author -
Plessy V. Ferguson
The Court control the segregation laws to were they were equal -
McKinley Assassinated
Leon Frank Czolgosz killed President McKinley because he claimed he done his duty, because he thought McKinley was head of corrupt government. -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
A strike by the United Mine of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. -
Muckrackers
A journalist group in the progressive era who uncovered and established institutions and leaders as corrupt -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
History of the Standard Oil Company is credited with hastening the breakup of Standard Oil, which came about in 1911 -
The Jungle Published
The is book describes the cruel state and living situations the immigrants had to go through -
Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of activists many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the United States -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A law to were you can't misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
The first law to establish that archaeological sites on public lands are important public resources. -
Food and Drug Act
The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress -
Taft Wins
Carried 23% of the votes and won two states -
Muller v. Oregon
Women giving with lesser work hours than men -
16th Amendment
The Congress pas a law on income tax -
NAACP formed
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Urban League
The National Urban League is a Progressive Era organization formed in New York City in 1911. ... Colloquially, the Urban League was often called the “State Department” of African-American affairs, while the NAACP was known as the “War Department.” -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
Wilson Elected
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election -
Department of Labor Established
The United States Department responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services -
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserved System -
Federal trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The Act was signed into law by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission enforced the Clayton Antitrust Act and prevented unfair methods of competition. -
Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using 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. Wikipedia -
The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stone mans and Southern landowners the Cameron, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. -
Lusitania sunk
The RMS Lusitania was a UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. -
Zimmerman Telegram
he Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. In his address to Congress that day, Wilson lamented it is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war. Four days later, Congress obliged and declared war on Germany -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act of 1917 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
Was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor. The decision was overruled by United States v. Darby Lumber Co. -
Sedition
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward rebellion against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or insurrection against, established authority. -
Armistice Day
An armistice was signed and hostilities on the Western Front ceased at 11am. Although the peace treaties that would formally end the First World War would not be signed until 1919, 11 November 1918 was, and continues to be, a significant day. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again. -
18th amendment
prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
Versailles Peace Conference
. The conference was called to establish the terms of the peace after World War I. ... The United Kingdom, France, and Italy fought together as the Allied Powers during the First World War. -
Treaty of Versailles
The president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. This was no ordinary treaty; it was the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I and establishing the League of Nations. -
Wilson Stroke
Wilson announces he will attend the Paris Peace Conference. President Wilson signs the Wartime Prohibition Act, banning the manufacture of alcohol for domestic sale effective -
19th amendment
Women get the right to vote -
19th amendment
all American women the right to vote. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society
