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Under Brooker T. Washington, the Tuskegee Institute was created to train teachers for the state of Alabama. -
a law that restricted Chinese immigrants and immigration because of competition for jobs -
A law designed to put regulations on railway systems, and their respective monopolies. -
A house used to educate women and a place for women to exchange knowledge. -
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
A law that was passed to outlaw monopolies and all related practices. -
A court case that ruled that segregation was constitutional as long as both facilities were same quality. 'separate but equal' -
Muckrakers were reporters who exposed corruption among the elite and politicians. -
This was the assassination of President William McKinley -
A strike led by coal miners to fight for better wages, working hours, and recognition of their worker's union. -
An expose about the Standard Oil Company which was run by John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest people in American History. -
A domestic program enacted to enforce Teddy Roosevelt's "3 C's" which were: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
A novel describing the terrible condition that immigrants in America were suffering from. -
An act that ensured that meat would be slaughtered, prepared, and sold in sanitary and regulated manners. -
Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated foods, beverages, and medications. -
Determined that working hour restrictions of women were up to the decision of the state. -
The first US Government law to provide protection for any general kind of cultural or natural resource. -
Taft won the election of 1908 largely due to the constant support of Roosevelt, who practically appointed Taft as his successor. -
The NAACP was created to fight for civil rights and advance justice for African Americans in the U.S. -
The National Urban League is an organization that advocates for the protection of civil rights and the end of racial discrimination of African Americans. -
One of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of the U.S, claiming 146 lives. -
The Underwood-Simmons Tariff, otherwise known as, the revenue act of 1913, reduced tariffs from 40% to 25%. This encouraged importation of foreign materials and goods. -
This amendment allowed congress to collect income tax. -
Established the DoL, which was in charge of creating federal laws to take control of workers safety and welfare. -
Allowed the public to cote directly for U.S. Senators. -
Created the Federal Reserve, which was used to organize and consolidate the country's money supply -
Trench Warfare was a form a warfare in which gas, mortars and long range guns were used and armies were forced to dig trenches to survive, making the forward movement of any front nearly impossible. -
This act aided in the creation of the FTC which protected consumers in the U.S. -
The Clayton Antitrust Act made it so that strikes, boycotts, and labor unions legal under federal law. -
The FTC is an independent agency of the US whose goal is to protect consumers. -
The Birth of a Nation was a motion picture released in 1915 and was the first blockbuster film to date. -
The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that had Americans on board and when it was sunk it brought the U.S. into the first World War. -
Wilson is elected president by winning 40 states, even though he lost the popular vote with 41.8%. -
The Zimmerman Telegram was a telegram that was intercepted that informed the U.S. of a planned attack by Mexico and Germany. -
Wilson appears before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Germany, therefore including them in WW1 -
The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited any form of betrayal against the U.S. government and/or national info for the advantage of a foreign nation. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart was a court case in which the goal was to regulate child labor but the court case was won by Dagenhart, who was in favor of non-regulation of child labor. -
Fourteen Points was a speech made by President Wilson that was used for the peace negotiations that ended WW1. -
The Sedition Act was an act that expanded the use of the Espionage Act and made a wider range of offenses fall under said act. -
This is the day that Germany and the allies finally signed an armistice, which ended gunfire on the Western Front and was the first step towards the end of WW1. -
The Treaty of Versailles to Senate vote ended in a 38-53 denial of the Treaty due to Wilson's lack of compliance with the objections made by senators. -
Wilson suffers a stroke in 1919 that left him incapacitated until the end of his term in 1921. -
The 18th amendment was the beginning of the Temperance Era and led to the rise of bootleggers and organized crime. -
The 19th amendment was the amendment that gave women the right to vote in U.S. elections. -
The Versailles Peace Conference was the meeting of all the countries involved in WW1 where they came to an agreement on what the reparations would be for the damage and death caused by the war. -
The League of Nations was the first organization formed between multiple governments whose main mission was to maintain world peace. -
The KKK was founded by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners to oppose Reconstruction after the Civil War and believed racial discrimination was right. -
Dubois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and civil rights activist during the Progressive Era.