Progressive era

Progressive Learning era

  • WEB dubois

    WEB dubois

    civil rights activist and a writer. worked with booker t washington
  • Jim Crow laws

    Jim Crow laws

    state and local laws that legalize segregation
  • Tuskeegee institute

    Tuskeegee institute

    first university for african americans
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibits all chinese immigration and laborers in the united states.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    first industry subject to federal regulation. regulate railroads
  • Jane Addams Hull House

    Jane Addams Hull House

    The Hull House became "a community of university women" and its main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    reform minded journalists in the progressive era in the united states who exposed established institutions and leaders
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    It outlaws monopolization in any part of the United States
  • Plessy VS. Ferguson

    Plessy VS. Ferguson

    "separate but equal"
  • Mckinley Assassinated

    Mckinley Assassinated

    The assassination of President William Mckinley.
  • Coal Miner Strike 1902

    Coal Miner Strike 1902

    miners wanted a 20% increase in their wages, the mine owners said no, and so they went on strike. teddy roosevelt was on the side of the workers.
  • Ida Tarbell- "the history of standard oil"

    Ida Tarbell- "the history of standard oil"

    A book about the standard oil company, run by john d rockefeller.
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    it was an expose about the american meatpacking industry. by upton sinclair
  • niagra movement

    niagra movement

    civil and social rights for african americans
  • Antiquities Act

    Antiquities Act

    Nation's oldest law protecting historic, prehistoric, and scientific features.
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    american law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbranded meat and meat products being sold as food
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by congress in the 20th century
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    Taft wins the presidential election. best friends with teddy roosevelt. however when he becomes president, he doesnt continue teddys legacy
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    Women were allowed to work for ten hours in factories and laundries per day
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    national association for the advancement of colored people
  • Urban League

    Urban League

    national activist movement for african americans
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    A fire broke out at the triangle shirtwaist factory, near manhattan. 145 people were dead.
  • 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."
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    The organic act establishing the department or labor was signed on march 4, 1913 by a reluctant president william howard taft
  • Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    domestic policy that was based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
  • 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."
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Re-established a federal income tax in the United States substantially lowering tariff rates.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes
  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission

    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.
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    the act defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor.
  • Birth of a nation

    Birth of a nation

    a poetic drama in black and white created in 1915
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    "the commission is empowered, among other things, to a prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce."
  • lusitania sunk

    lusitania sunk

    This boat sank as it was torpedoed by germans.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    African American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United states
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Woodrow Wilson defeated former governor of New York, Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    prohibition of alcohol.
  • Rise of the KKK

    Rise of the KKK

    the KKK rose in the 1910s and the 1920s
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    voting rights for women