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Women’s right convention at Seneca Falls
First women’s right convention and launched women’s sufferage movement -
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Jim Crow era
It was a time where laws were I forced to help racial segregation in Southern United States -
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Progressive Era
Political reform across the United States -
Booker T Washington published “Up From Slavery”
This was BTWs autobiography of his life -
Theodore Rosevelt elected as president
McKinley was assassinated so Teddy assumed president. -
W.E.B. Dubois established the Niagara Movement
A black civil rights organization that wanted political, civil, and social rights fir African Americans -
Publication of the Jungle by Upton StClair
Meat packing company was terrible and killing lots of people and a man went in working there and wrote a book about how terrible it was working back then. Brought to be the meat inspection act and food and drug inspection act -
Passage of the Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the sale of alulterated or misbranded livestock -
Creation of the food and drug administration
To ban foreign and interstate traffic of adulterer or mislabeled food and drug -
16th amendment ratified
Congress can lay and collect taxes on incomes -
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William Tafts presidency
He defeated William Jennings Bryan -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Tragedy
A huge fire in NYC that destroyed all the industries -
17th amendment ratified
Senate is 2 senators from each state for 6 years -
Woodrow Wilson elected president
He defeated Charles Evans Hughes (former governor of NY) -
Federal reserve Act established
Created the central banking system in the United States -
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World War 1
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18th amendment ratified
Banned manufacturing of intoxicating liquor -
19th amendment ratified
Right To vote no matter your sex -
Ratification of the 19th amendment
Right to vote can’t be denied by sex -
First national election all American women could vote