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Jim Crow Laws
Enforced racial segregation -
Tuskegee Institute
The first institution of higher learning for African Americans -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was one of the first law that excluded a certain race/ immigration from the us. -
Interstate Commerce Act
They made guidelines on how railroads could settle business to stop monopolies. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
It stops activities that restrict commerce and competition when it comes to the marketplace. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A decision that racial segregation laws didn't violate the constitution as long as it was equal in quality. ("Seperate but equal") -
McKinley Assassinated
He was shot. -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
Progressive groups made tremendous strides on issues involving democracy, efficiency, and social justice -
Coal Miner Strike
Miners wanted to break the miners union and labor movement and wanted a free market economy so they walked out the mines. -
The Jungle (published)
Upton Sinclair (The author of ¨The Jungle¨) intended to expose "the inferno of exploitation of the typical American factory worker at the turn of the 20th Century. -
W.E.B Dubois
Primarily targeted racism in his polemic, which protested strongly against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment -
Food and Drug Act
after "The Jungle" the gov't passed a law that protected consumers from bad food and bad drugs. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
The act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Roosevelt Antiquities Act
Law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands. -
Taft Wins
Theodore Roosevelt promised publicly not to seek the presidency again in 1908 -
16th Amendment
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population -
NAACP formed
An interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group -
Muckrackers
They were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. -
Rise of KKK
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 -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt -
17th Amendment
Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor -
Booker T Washington
a 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 -
The Birth of a Nation Movie
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. -
19th Amendment
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 -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
Jane Addams - Hull House
Most of the people living in the area at the time were recently arrived immigrants from Europe.