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  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    An American educator, author, advisor, and orator to several presidents
  • W.E.B Dubois

    W.E.B Dubois

    An American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-African civil rights activist
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute

    First institution for higher learning for African Americans
  • Chinese exclusion act

    Chinese exclusion act

    The government banned Chinese immigrants from becoming U.S citizens for a 10-year time period
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Set guidelines on how railroads could do business
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams was the co-founder of the Hull House which was a settlement house with a summer camp and the Bowen Country Club
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    antitrust law that prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    A case where the government said that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S constitution
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    William McKinley was assassinated in the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in New york
  • Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal

    a program, which reflected Teddy Roosevelt's three major goals. conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Strike that Coal miners of eastern Pennsylvania for higher pay
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    A novel by Upton Sinclair that was to expose corruption in the government and business
  • Food and Drug act

    Food and Drug act

    After "the jungle" the government passed a law that protected consumers from bad food and drugs
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food and makes sure meat slaughtering is performed at certain sanitary levels in factories
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Allows the president to proclaim national monuments on government-owned lands
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Inforced that taxes will be taken out of citizens paycheck
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed

    an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    Journalist who wanted to expose corruption in businesses
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burned down in one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of Manhattan
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    William Howard Taft was elected president in 1908 by 702 votes
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Wilson defeated William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt to win the election. Became the first Southerner president since 1848.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Made the Federal Reserve the central bank for a more safe and reliable bank
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    Defines unethical business practices like monopolies, price fixing, and labor rights
  • The Birth of a Nation movie

    The Birth of a Nation movie

    preacher turned rebellion leader as he fights racism in the South with a violent and brutal fist
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Citizens who vote will not be denied by sex
  • Rise of KKK

    Rise of KKK

    an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865
  • Jim Crows Laws

    Jim Crows Laws

    State and local laws enforced in southern states in the late 19th and 20th centuries