Progressive Era

  • Sedition Act

    This act permitted 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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    Booker T. Washington

    American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite.
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    W.E.B. Dubois

    American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Laws created after the civil war that legalized segregation and denied equal rights
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    Booker T Washington founded it to train teachers in alabama
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    A law passed to restrict and exclude Chinese immigrants by the U.S because of competition for jobs.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    An act created to limit the monopolistic practices of the railroad industry.
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    A place where "educated women could share all kinds of knowledge"
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    A law passed by congress which authorizes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce
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    Muckrakers

    A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    After an African American refused to sit in a car for black people, a case was made in which the supreme court established the "separate but equal" doctrine (Which was basically segregation) as constitutional which led to multiple laws against African Americans to be made across the word.
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    Leon Czolgosz killed president McKinley because he thought he was the leader of a corrupt government
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike

    The mine workers in Pennsylvania went on strike for things like higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition for their union.
  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    A book written by Ida Tarbell as an expose about the oil company which was run by John D Rockerfeller at the time
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    A novel written about the harsh living conditions of immigrants
  • Niagara Movement

    Niagara Movement

    A group of black people who demanded equal economic and educational opportunity
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Law that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Law that provided protection for any cultural or natural resource
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    An act that prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs.
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    A decision that women would have less work hours than men made by the supreme court
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    William Howard Taft was elected president
  • NAACP Formed

    NAACP Formed

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They fought for justice and equality for African Americans
  • Urban League

    Urban League

    An organization that wanted to eliminate segregation and discrimination, and help minorities and participate in every phase of life.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history
  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    The Square Deal was a set of policies that attempted to prevent further labor abuses and improve workplace safety, protect the natural landscape, and improve the overall health and well-being of Americans
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Act passed to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    It reestablished income tax in the United States and lowered tariff rates
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    One of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.
  • Federal trade Commission

    Federal trade Commission

    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

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    This act protects consumers by stopping unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices in the marketplace.
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    This act prohibits anticompetitive mergers, predatory and discriminatory pricing, and other forms of unethical corporate behavior.
  • Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson Asks for War

    Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.
  • Trench Warfare

    A type of combat in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    A film that tells the stories of two families on both sides of the mason dixon line
  • Lusitania sunk

    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, about 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the united states
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    This act prohibited things like obtaining information, recording information, or copying pictures
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    The zimmerman telegram was basically saying that if Germany went to war with the United States, they promised to help mexico recover the territory that they lost during the 1840's
  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    Hammer v. Dagenhart

    A decision to enforce child labor laws made by the supreme court
  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day

    The day that the two allies of world war 1 signed an armistice.
  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    Wilson-Fourteen Points

    A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for negotiationd
  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    The senate rejected the treaty of versailles
  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson Stroke

    Wilson wanted to run for president again but he suffered from a serious stroke that left him incapacitated
  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Versailles Peace Conference

    The conference called to establish peace after world war 1
  • Rise of the KKK

    Rise of the KKK

    The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist hate group that employed terror in pursuit of their agenda
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    This amendment prohibited the sale or transportation of liquor
  • League of Nations

    An international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Womens right to vote!!!!
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The Congress shall have 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.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.