Chapter 2 Timeline

By DegnerBoy

  • Women's Right Convention at Seneca Falls

    It launched the women’s suffrage movement

  • Jim Crow Era

    Otherwise known as Jim Crow Laws, were collections of state and local statutes

  • Progressive Era

    It was a time of political reform, and widespread social activity

  • Booker T. Washington publishes "Up From Slavery"

    BTW’s autobiography

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    He became president after William McKinley was assassinated

  • W.E.B. DuBois established the Niagara Movement

    The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group

  • Publication of the Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    The subject of the book was to bring caution to the factories about cooking bad meat, or animals that were diseased

  • Passage of the Meat Inspection Act

    It was made a law for cooks to make sure they were cooking good meat or animals that were healthy

  • Creation of the Food and Drug Administration

    There job was to protect the public health

  • 16th Amendment Ratified

    The 16th amendment said that congress should have the power to lay and collect taxes on income

  • William Howard Taft's Presidency

    He beat William Jennings Brian

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy

    The shirtwaist factory burned down, this was important it made factories safer because factories realized the dangers that could occur

  • 17th Amendment Ratified

    The senate of the U.S. should be composed of two senators per state

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

    He ran against Charles Evans Hugh

  • The Federal Reserve Act established

    The Federal Reserve is the Central Bank of the U.S.

  • World War 1

  • 18th Amendment Ratified

    Prohibited alcohol in the U.S.

  • 19th Amendment Ratified

    The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any state on account of sex

  • Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Legally allowed women to vote

  • First National Election All American Women Could Vote