Progressive Era

By izaiab
  • Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    The KKK was a racist organization that employed violence on African Americans in order to assert white supremacy and maintain a strict racial hierarchy.
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    a historic black land grant university
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    prohibited all immigration on Chinese laborers
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    racial laws that enforced racial segregation in southern US
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    designed to regulate the railroad industry and its monopolistic practices
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    a house opened to save European immigrants
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    prescribed the rule of free competition
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    "separate but equal" landmark where the supreme court made the decision to have racial segregation in public facilities as long as it was equal
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    25th president
  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Coal Miner Strike-1902

    coal miners had went on strike wanting shorter work days higher pays and more recognition .
  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    a book that was written by ida Tarbell exposing the violations against the sherman anti trust act
  • Niagara Movement

    Niagara Movement

    a black civil rights organization founded by a group of activist
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    a novel about the harsh living conditions of immigrants.
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    gives the president the ability to declare historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated on land owned by the Federal Government
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    ensures the meat is slaughtered under sanitary conditions
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    protections laws towards food and drug administration
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    women had to mandate lesser work hours
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    1st republican to lose all northern states carried 23% of the national vote-getting Utah and Vermont
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , this was formed to get justice for African Americans
  • Urban League

    Urban League

    a service agency founded to eliminate racial segregation
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    a rag in the rag bin caught fire
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    creating standards for occupational safety, wages, hours, and benefits and by compiling economic statistics.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    established direct election of US
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    reestablished federal income tax
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    created the central banking system
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    declared strikes, boycotts, and labor unions legal under federal law.
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare

    type of warefare where trenches were used for or during battle
  • Federal trade Commission

    Federal trade Commission

    enforces antitrust laws
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    outlaws unfair methods of competition
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    a silent film, it had broken records.
  • Lusitania sunk

    Lusitania sunk

    a ship that had sunk during the first world war when Germany had submarine warfare with the UK.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    a author, educator, orator and a philanthropist
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    woodrow wilson won the election
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    a secret diplomatic communication issued from German foreign offices.
  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson urged congress to declare war on Germany which they had been trying to resist doing which lead to great tragedy.
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense which could harm us if another nation had withheld that information
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    prohibition of alcohol
  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Wilson-Fourteen Points

    principles for peace negotiation to end ww1
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Hammer v. Dagenhart

    the decision where the Court was trying to make a federal law regulating child labor.
  • Sedition Act

    Sedition Act

    made it illegal to make false claims of the government
  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Versailles Peace Conference

    set peace terms for central defeated powers after world 1
  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson Stroke

    Woodrow Wilson had a severe stroke and had to retire from office due to it .
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    armistice signed between allies of world war 1
  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    treaty that ended world war 1
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    had a principle mission to try and obtain world peace
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    all citizen of us allowed to vote
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois

    American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    journalists in the progressive era who exposed leaders in the institution as corrupt.
  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    supported the regulation of large corporations and railroads