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leading African American intellectual, founding Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881 and the National Negro Business League two decades later
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a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings
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a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
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black university
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prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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railroad operations be regulated
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provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
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law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
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a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
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U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which train passenger Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks
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Roosevelt's belief that every man and woman should receive fair treatment and equal opportunity
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the assassination happened in buffalo new york
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Miners striked for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities.
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The Court found that Standard was an illegal monopoly and ordered it broken into 34 separate companies
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written by the Muckraker Upton Sinclair; a graphic portrayal of the filthy conditions in Chicago's meat packaging plants; aided the passage the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
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was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of civil rights activists
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gives the president the ability to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated on land owned or controlled by the Federal Government to be national monuments
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provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
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Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines
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William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan
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Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to work for racial equality
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to help African American migrants assimilate into urban life
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a factory in New York City burned killing 145 workers
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agency responsible for enforcing federal labor standards and occupational safety
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law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
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re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates
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trenches dug into the ground
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established the FTC which was a board of five men authorized to help define and halt unfair business practices
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law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
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led the opposition to Booker Washington and argued that blacks could not improve economically until they enjoyed equal participation in the political process as American citizens
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The disaster set off a chain of events that led to the U.S. entering World War I
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Made a program called New Freedom. Also Federal Reserve Act.
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"The Great War" continually challenged the nation's neutrality.
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British intelligence deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
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essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces
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The Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Rethondes, France, at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, bringing the war now known as World War I to a close
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peace negotiations in order to end World War I
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struck down the Keating-Owen Act as unconstitutional. ... The power “to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the states, is a purely state authority.”
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permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.
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establish terms of peace after WWI
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rejected treaty
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incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency. He retired from public office in 1921 and died in 1924
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the first worldwide intergovernmental organization to maintain world peace
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collect taxes on income without state approval or in regard to the census
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two senators from each state(elected by people) for six years and each shall have one vote
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prohibition
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allows women to vote
