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woman’s right convention at seneca falls
it was the first woman’s convention and it started the woman suffrage movement -
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Jim Crow era
it was the creation of laws made for the states to enforce racial segregation -
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Progressive Era
it was a 23 year period of political reform and social activism -
Booker T Washington publishes “Up from slavery”
Booker thought that you couldn’t have an actual education if you don’t learn how to work -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
McKinley was assassinated so Roosevelt became the youngest assumed president -
W.E.B. DuBois established the Niagara movement
The niagara movement was a Black civil rights organization that was started by some civil rights activists -
Publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
written for the meat packing industry to address the issues the immigrants were going through -
Passage of the meat inspection act
once it was made into a law, people had to go into the industries and do a inspection on the meat and the environment -
creation of the food and drug administration
their job was to protect the public’s health and making sure the food they were eating was safe -
16 amendment ratified
the reason for the 16th amendment was for the federal income tax -
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William Howard Taft's Presidency
He defeated William Jennings Bryan who ran 3 times -
Triangle Shirtwaist company tragedy
what happened was there was a huge fire at the factory. why it is so significant is because it is the most deadliest disaster to this day in the U.S. -
17 amendment ratified
the first paragraph of the first article in section 3 is basically what the 17th amendment says -
Woodrow Wilson elected president
Charles Evans Huges. he was a supreme court justice and the former governor of New York. Charles was running as the republican candidate -
The federal reserve was established
the federal reserve is a banking system that was created because a financial panic -
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World war 1
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18th amendment ratified
this amendment prohibited alcohol use -
19 amendment ratified
the 19 amendment was created so that everyone could vote no matter what gender -
first national election all American women could vote
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ratification of the 19 the amendment
it was passed so that woman could vote