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Booker T. Washington
An African American who was born into slavery and rose to become a leading intellectual of the 19th century. -
Rise of KKK
A circle of people that supported white supremacy, anti-Catholicism, anti-antisemitism, and anti communism. -
Jim Crow Laws
A collection of laws that legalized racial segregation. -
W.E.B. Dubois
An African American writer, teacher, sociologist and activist whose worked influenced and changed the way African Americans were viewed in society. -
Tuskegee Institute
It was found by Booker T. Washington, it was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was a law signed off by President Arthur denying all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
In 1887, when the U.S. Congressmen agreed to make the railroads the first industry to a Federal regulation. -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Jane Addams-Hull formed settlement houses were created to provide community services. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was one of the first federal law acts that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Muckrackers
Muckrackers were journalists who exposed institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a segregation decision to do the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
McKinley Assassinated
President William McKinley was murdered. -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
President Roosevelt introduced a domestic program which showed natural resources, control of corporations, and a consumer protection. -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
In 1902, United Mine workers decided to start a fight for a better wage and working conditions. -
Ida Tarbell "History of Standard Oil"
Ida Tarbell was a journalist who wrote a book exposing the Standard Oil Company. -
Niagara Movement
The Niagara movement was a civil rights group gathered by W.E.B. Du bois to form an organization dedicated to social and political change for African Americans. -
Food and Drug Act
The Food and Drug Act prohibited any misbranded or suspicious foods from being sold in the interstate commerce. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
This act established the first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the United States. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
President Theodore Roosevelt prohibited that the meatpacking industry, meaning that all USDA must inspect any kind of meat from cows, pigs, sheep,goats, and horses before and after they have been killed. -
"The Jungle" published
The Jungle was a novel wrote by Upton Sinclair, and it did a raise in the meat industry. It was used to get the government more involved with the problems in society instead of letting people handle it on their own. -
Muller v. Oregon
Oregon passed a law that limited women's hours working in factories and laundries, and Curt Miller was fined when he broke the law which was upheld in a Supreme Court. -
Taft Wins
William Howard Taft was elected president in the 1908 election. -
NAACP formed
The NAACP stood for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was America's oldest and largest civil rights organization. -
16th Amendment
The sixteenth amendment addressed that 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. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A fire was broken out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, which caused workers to jump to their deaths. -
Urban League
An organization formed in New York City used for civil rights. It was also known as one of the "Big Five." It provided assistance to African Americans to further the dual tenets of economic and social justice. -
Department of Labor Established
The Department of Labor was an executive department formed to help workers, job seekers, and retirees by creating standards for safety, wages, hours, and benefits. -
17th Amendment
The seventeenth amendment established that 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. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
This tariff re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act to establish economic stability in the United States by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Trench Warfare
This was important during the first World War because they protected the soldiers from machine guns or any weapon from the opposing side. -
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission was used to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce as part of the battle to "bust the trust". -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act protects consumers by stopping deceptive practices in the marketplace. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
An act that defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies and upholds various rights of labor. -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
It was an American silent epic drama film that was the longest and most profitable film. -
Lusitana sunk
The British ocean liner Lusitania, carried people and goods across the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and Great Britain. It was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk. -
Wilson elected
Woodrow Wilson was elected president on November 7th. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from Arthur Zimmerman to Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering the U.S. territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
Wilson asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson declared a war against Germany for violating their pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. -
Espionage Act
This act made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the United States armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
Wilson made a proposal outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent conflict again. -
Sedition Act
It permitted the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone that deemed a threat or published false writing against the government of the U.S. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
Reuben Dagenhart's father had to sue for behalf of his freedom to have his son work in a textile mill at fourteen, which violated the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act. -
Armistice Day
The allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Rethondes, France bringing the first World War to a close. -
18th Amendment
The amendment that banned the manufacture transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
President Wilson delivered the treaty to the Senate who rejected the treaty. -
Wilson Stroke
Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and was incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency. -
League of Nations
An international organization found after the Paris Peace Conference. Their goals included disarmament, and preventing a war overall. -
Versailles Peace Conference
It was a conference held to establish the terms of the peace after World War I. -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave women the right to vote and not be denied or abridged.
