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Women's Trade Union League of New York
"Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly, and others form the Women's Trade Union League of New York, an organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated to unionization for working women and to woman suffrage." History.com -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclaire Published
"In 1906, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a novel dramatizing the experiences of a Lithuanian immigrant family who moved to Chicago to work in the stockyards. Although Sinclair intended the novel to reveal the brutal exploitation of labor in the meatpacking industry, and thus to build support for the socialist movement, its major impact was to lay bare the entire process of industrialized food production." The American Yawp -
The Iron Heel by Jack London Published
"“Never in the history of the world was society in so terrific flux as it is right now,” Jack London wrote in The Iron Heel, his 1907 dystopian novel in which a corporate oligarchy comes to rule the United States." The American Yawp -
Model T Ford hits the market!
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Women's Suffrage Parade
The Women’s Political Union organizes the first suffrage parade in New York City. -
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WWI
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The Birth of a Nation Released
"...a popular and groundbreaking film that valorized the Reconstruction Era Klan as a protector of feminine virtue and white racial purity. " (YAWP) -
Death of Leo Frank
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Flu Epidemic
"Then, between 1918 and 1920, nearly seven hundred thousand Americans died in a flu epidemic that hit nearly 20 percent of the American population." -The American Yawp -
Prohibition Act Passed
"FDR’s victory meant the end for Prohibition, and in February 1933 Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th." History.com -
19th Amendment
Women's Suffrage across the nation
