Progressive Era

By sadie17
  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws
    The Jim crow laws were introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
  • Tuskegee formed

    Tuskegee formed
    The Tuskegee formed were the one of the first soldiers to pass and join the Army Air Crops.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Acts were a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizensq
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation.
  • Jane Adams hull house

    Jane Adams hull house
    Was a settlement house that aimed to provide social and educational service immigrants.
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers
    The muckrakers were journalist who would exposed people for dirt they had.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Plessy V. ferguson

    Plessy V. ferguson
    Plessy V. Ferguson was racial segregation over the next half-century
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated
    He was the third U.S. President to be assassinated–and his death created the modern Secret Service.
  • NAACP Formed

    NAACP Formed
    The NAACP was to help insure that people of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment would be grantee their rights.
  • Coal Miner strike-1902

    Coal Miner strike-1902
    Breathed new life into the American labor movement.
  • Teddy Roosevelt square deal

    Teddy Roosevelt square deal
    Teddy Roosevelt was the 26th president and Promotes fairness and equality for all Americans by addressing issues such as labor rights, consumers protection.
  • The jungle published

    The jungle published
    A novel written by upton sinclair and was published in 906 its a powerful book that exposed the working condition
  • food and drug act

    food and drug act
    This was a significant piece of legislation passed in the US in 1906 it aimed to protect consumers from harmful and misleading
  • Roosevelt antiquities act

    Roosevelt antiquities act
    The first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands.
  • Federal meat inspection act

    Federal meat inspection act
    To prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat is being produced.
  • Traft Wins

    Traft Wins
    Taft won the 1908 presidential election and was the 27th president of the US and server from 1909 to 1913.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    The Triangle shirtwaist fire would adopt fire safety measure to ensure the labor code of New York.
  • Wilsom elected

    Wilsom elected
    Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S senator.
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment
    The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived, without apportionment.
  • Federal reserve act

    Federal reserve act
    Legislation in the United States that crested the Federal Reserve System.
  • Clayton antitrust act

    Clayton antitrust act
    Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor
  • Booker t Washington

    Booker t Washington
    Founding Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Now Tuskegee University in 1881 and the National Negro Business League
  • The birth of a nation movie

    The birth of a nation movie
    A landmark of film history, lauded for its technical virtuosity.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    Prohibited the ¨ manufacture ¨, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors¨.
  • The 19th amendment

    The 19th amendment
    The 19th amendment was a law being passed for women's right to vote
  • Rise of KKK early 20th century

    Rise of KKK early 20th century
    During the 1920s, cultural conflict and modernization helped resuscitate the Ku Klux Klan.
  • W.E.B dubois

    W.E.B dubois
    He was the foremost Black intellectuals of his time. Du Bois targeted racism.