Chapter 2 Timeline

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  • Women’s Right Convention at Seneca Falls

    This was a convention that was held to discuss and change women’s rights.
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    Jim Crow Era

    It was when segregation was passed in the southern states
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    Progressive Era

    this time was the time that jobs were opening up and that new inventions and progressions were being made.

  • Booker T. Washington publishes “Up From Slavery” (1901)

    This was a book that he made for people to understand as he was black.

  • Theodore Roosevelt became president

    he became president because of his ideas and because the last president died

  • W.E.B DuBois established the Niagara Movement

    This was a protest to protest what was happening in the government.

  • publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    the subject of this book was how emigrantes were treated in certain jobs this was significant because it showed people what was going on in meat factories

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    Once this law was made it caused certain people to come into each meat factory and have to supervise and make sure everything was in check.

  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

    The intended job was to make sure that everything was in check.

  • 16th Amendment Ratified

    this made it harder for the government to go around taxing states on bias.
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    William Howard Taft’s presidency

    he beat william j bryan

  • triangle shirtwaist company tragedy

    many people died because of this event in a company it was significant because it showed what truly was happening in certain businesses

  • 17th amendment ratified

    this made it more fair to become a senator.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

    he beat Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and Eugene Debs

  • The Federal Reserve Act established

    the federal reserve is the federal banking system
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    world war 1

  • 18th amendment ratified

    this made alcohol legal to sell and drink in the U.S.

  • 19th amendment ratified

    this allowed people to vote no matter their sex.

  • First National Election All American Women Could Vote

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    This took out the amendment that a certain sex can vote.