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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.
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Tuskegee's program provided students with both academic and vocational training. The students, under Washington's direction, built their own buildings, produced their own food, and provided for most of their own basic necessities -
the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. -
addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business. -
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. -
the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman -
Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government.
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an 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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On May 18, 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century. -
At the turn of the twentieth century the Ku Klux Klan experienced a major revival in the United States -
state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States centuries that enforced racial segregation -
Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot the President during one of his public appearances at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. -
The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal. -
It strengthened moderate labor leaders and progressive businessmen who championed negotiations as a way to labor peace. -
The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. -
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration -
law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
the first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. -
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. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells. -
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System. -
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history -
The Clayton Act made both substantive and procedural modifications to federal antitrust law. -
Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states -
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
about the American civil war and the rise of Ku Klux Klan. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
prohibited the sale of alcohol