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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an educator and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1895 and 1915. He was the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Tuskegee University). -
W.E.B. Dubois
Du Bois may be best known for the concept of the talented tenth. He believed that full citizenship and equal rights for African Americans would be brought about through the efforts of an intellectual elite. He was an advocate of a broad liberal arts education at the college level. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 under a charter from the Alabama legislature for the purpose of training teachers in Alabama -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
A law that was passed to restrict or exclude Chinese immigrants to the U.S because of competition for jobs. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry. Required that railroads charge fair rates to their customers and make those rates public. -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Jane Addams co-founded and led Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in North America. Hull House provided child care, practical and cultural training and education, and other services to the largely immigrant population of its Chicago neighborhood. -
Muckrackers
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers who exposed corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. -
McKinley Assassinated
William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
In 1902, 140,000 coal miners left work in the United Mine Workers strike. Workers were protesting low wages and dangerous working conditions. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. the Supreme Court of the United States found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The subsequent decision splintered the company into 34 smaller companies. -
The Jungle Published
The Jungle exposes the terrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry. Descriptions of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
The first United States law to provide general protection for any general kind of cultural or natural resource. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is an American law that 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. -
Food and Drug Act
Prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs. -
Muller v. Oregon
A decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work hours than allotted to men. -
Taft Wins
Taft won 51.6% of the popular vote and carried most states outside of the Solid South. -
NAACP formed
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. -
Niagara Movement
organization of black intellectuals that called for full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. -
Urban League
A nonpartisan historic 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
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson took advantage of the Republican split, winning 40 states and a large majority of the electoral vote with just 41.8% of the popular vote, the lowest support for any President after 1860. ... Roosevelt finished second with 88 electoral votes and 27% of the popular vote. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Underwood-Simmons Act, re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Department of Labor Established
An executive department was formed in 1913 to help workers, job seekers, and retirees by creating standards for occupational safety, wages, hours, and benefits and by compiling economic statistics. -
17 Amendment
The election of senators by replacing the phrase “chosen by the Legislature thereof” with “elected by the people. -
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. -
Trench Warfare
Trench warfare, combat in which armies attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. -
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 Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 was a United States federal law that established the Federal Trade Commission. 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
The Clayton Antitrust Act mandates that companies that want to merge must notify and receive permission from the government through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to do so. -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
On February 8, 1915, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema. Its explicit racism, Birth of a Nation is also regarded as one of the most offensive films ever made. Actually titled The Clansman for its first month of release, the film provides a highly subjective history of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. -
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. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The 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 States entered World War I against Germany. Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. -
Wilson Asks for War
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. -
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
A United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor. -
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. -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during times of war. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces -
Armistice Day
Celebration of the Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Compiégne, France. Bringing WW1 to an end. -
Wilson Stroke
Wilson had intended to seek a third term in office but suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. His wife and his doctor controlled Wilson, and no significant decisions were made. -
18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the 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. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
In 1919 the 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. -
Rise of KKK
This second generation of the Klan was not only anti-black but also took a stand against Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners, and organized labor. It was fueled by growing hostility to the surge in immigration. The organization took as its symbol a burning cross and held rallies, parades, and marches around the country. At its peak in the 1920s, Klan membership exceeded 4 million people nationwide. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.