Progressive Era

  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    Used for training teachers in Alabama. Provided both academic and vocational training
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    A law passed to exclude Chinese immigrants to the US because of competition for jobs
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Granted Congress the power to regulate commerce with other nations and states. Power to regulate railroads
  • Jane Addams - Hull House

    Jane Addams - Hull House

    A place to offer accommodation, education and opportunity to the residents of the people in poverty in the Halsted Street area
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed monopolistic business practices
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Decision of the Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the US constitution "separate but equal"
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley twice with revolver while he was McKinley was shaking hands with the public
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike

    Anthracite coal miners threatened a coal famine. Resulted in a 10% increase in pay and small working hours
  • Ida Tarbell - "The History of Standard Oil"

    Ida Tarbell - "The History of Standard Oil"

    Excoriated Rockefeller and his company, it helped start new legislation and litigation to help regulate interstate commerce
  • Teddy Roosevelt - Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt - Square Deal

    Program with three goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    Expose appalling working conditions in the meat packing industry and the Chicago Stockyards
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    Prohibited interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated food, drink, and drugs
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated livestock and derived products as food along with unsanitary slaughtering and processing
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Law that provided general protection for any general kind of culture or natural resources. Established the first national historic preservation policy
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    Had Roosevelt's support, won on the first ballot, gave republicans their 4th straight presidential victory
  • Muller V. Oregon

    Muller V. Oregon

    Supreme Court case in which the Court considered if a state could limit the number of hours a women could work while not limiting the men
  • Niagara Movement

    Niagara Movement

    Movement of African American intellectuals that demanded equal economic and educational opportunity as well as the ability for black men and women to vote
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed

    Created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, transportation, voting and employment; oppose racism
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    Provided detailed, accurate journal accounts of political and economic corruption and hardships due to the power big businesses in the growing US
  • Urban league

    Urban league

    Civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, social justice, and equality
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Fire broke out in the factory. The workers were trapped inside due to the owners locking the fire escape exit doors. This lead to the employees jumping out the windows and plummeting to their death.
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    Help workers, job seekers and the retired by creating job safety, wages, hours and benefits
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Created to establish stability by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Reform and reduce tariffs while having an income tax to raise revenue for the government
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Congress should have all the power to lay and collect taxes and income
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The direct election of senators by voters of the states
  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission

    Protects consumers by stopping unfair and fraudulent practices in the marketplace
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    Allows agency's to investigate to prevent unfair competition or deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    Defines unethical business practices like price fixing and monopolies
  • Booker T Washington

    Booker T Washington

    Educator and reformer, first president and principle developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Most influential black leader of his time
  • The Birth of a Nation

    The Birth of a Nation

    A silent epic drama film that represents racism "The foundation of what would become Hollywood"
  • Lusitania Sunk

    Lusitania Sunk

    UK registered ocean linear Torpedoed by a German U-boat during the first world war
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    1st term election was 1912. 2nd term election 1916. Member of the Democratic party. Changed the nations economic polices and led the US into World War 1
  • W.E.B Dubois

    W.E.B Dubois

    The most important black protest leader in the US
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    British decrypted a telegram from German Foreign Minister Zimmerman to the German Minister in Mexico. Offered US territory to Mexico in return for joining Germans cause
  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson went before a joint session to request a deceleration of war against Germany
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    Prohibited obtaining information, taking and recording pictures, or copying descriptions of information relating to national defense, with the intent that it may be used for the injury of the US
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Hammer v. Dagenhart

    US Supreme Court decision that allowed Congress to enforce child labor laws
  • Sedition Act

    Sedition Act

    Permits the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone that is a threat or publishing false or evil writings
  • Trench Warfare

    Trench Warfare

    Combat in which both sides attack, defend and counterattack from permanent trenches that were dug into the ground
  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Statement of principles for peace. This was used for peace negotiations to end WW1
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Prohibited manufacture, sale or transportation of liquor, but excluded the consumption, possession, or production for ones own use
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    A commemoration of the truce that brought end to World War 1. Now its best known as veterans day
  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Versailles Peace Conference

    Was held to establish the terms of peace after World War 1
  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Senate rejected the treaty because Wilson had failed to take the senators objections to the agreement into consideration
  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson Stroke

    Planned on seeking a third term but the stroke left him unfit to
  • Rise of the KKK (early 20th cent.)

    Rise of the KKK (early 20th cent.)

    Fueled partly by patriotism and part by missing the old south, it expressed the defensive reaction of white protestants
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Guarantees American women the right to vote
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    International organization made after WW1 to provide a forum for solving international disputes
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    State and local laws that legalized racial segregation