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He was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. -
He was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor. -
It was founded as an idea for a school for African Americans in the city of Tuskegee actually began two years prior -
A federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
A federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry and particularly monopolistic practices. -
The Hull House became a central gathering place and allowed reformer Jane Addams to help many immigrants in its Chicago neighborhood. -
An antitrust law prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. -
Apr 13, 1896 – May 18, 1896
A landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which they ruled the racial segregation laws and did not violate the U.S. Constitution -
25th President of the US. He was shot on the grounds of the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. -
May 12, 1902 - October 23, 1902
It was a strike by the Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. -
The History of the Standard Oil Company is credited with the breakup of Standard Oil when the Supreme Court found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of activists – many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the US -
The Jungle is a novel by the journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. It portrays the harsh conditions and terrible lives of immigrants in the US, Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Established the first national historic preservation policy for the United States -
Prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food -
The Pure Food and Drug Act was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the FDA. -
Was a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work hours than allotted to men. -
Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states. Vermont and Utah, He was the first Republican to lose the Northern states. -
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 -
Was any of a group of American writers identified with Pre-WW1 reform and exposé writing. -
Colloquially, the Urban League was often called the “State Department” of African-American affairs, while the NAACP was known as the “War Department.” -
A factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, -
A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. -
It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
The Underwood Tariff or the Underwood-Simmons Act, re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
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. -
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program reflected on three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Its' a cabinet-level department of the U.S. government, responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics. -
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 Act was signed into law by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce -
The newly created Federal Trade Commission enforced the Clayton Antitrust Act and prevented unfair methods of competition -
type of combat in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. -
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. -
a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, according to the Library of Congress. -
a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 -
President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I -
prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions -
a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor. -
the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” -
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. -
a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918 -
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours -
The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. -
On July 10, 1919, the president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. -
Wilson had intended to seek a third term in office but suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. -
Women got the Right to Vote -
Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance. -
the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.