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16th Amendment
taxes -
17th Amendment
senators -
18th amendment
bans importing alcohol -
19th amendment
anyone can vote -
Jim Crow Laws
racial segregation -
W.E.B. Dubois
civil rights activist -
Tuskegee Institute
learning institute -
Chinese Exclusion Act
An act excluding the Chinese from immigrating into America -
Interstate Commerce Act
slow the rate at which railroads are built -
Jane Addams-Hull House
a poor house -
Ida Tarbell
she was the first muckraker and she took on the topic of oil drilling -
Muckrakers
journalists who would expose the nasty or corrupt things government or government agencies would do -
Sherman Antitrust Act
banned monopolistic behavior -
Plessy v. Ferguson
a decision about racial segregation -
McKinley Assassinated
assassinated because he was thought to have been in a corrupt government -
Coal Miner Strike
miners struck for higher wages they threatened to cut off winter fuel -
Niagara Movement
civil rights group -
Urban League
multi committee -
The Jungle Published
it demonstrates the harsh lives immigrants live in America -
federal meat inspection act
banned misbranded meat to be sold -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
legalization of cultural growth -
Food and Drug Act
disallowed the selling of misbranded drugs or food -
Taft Wins
Taft wins against bryan -
Muller v. Oregon
reduces women work hours -
NAACP formed
civil rights organization -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
a deadly factory fire killing over 100 -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
it demonstrated the things he was going to do for them -
Department of Labor Established
the decision to have it built -
Federal Reserve Act
created the federal reserve system -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
reduced rates from 40% to 25% -
Federal trade Commission
bans unfair rivalry in commerce -
Federal Trade Commission Act
unfair commerce -
Trench Warfare
fighting but in the ground a bit -
Clayton Antitrust Act
unethical business practices -
Booker T. Washington
a former slave -
Lusitania sunk
boat sank -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
silent film -
Wilson Asks for War
guy wants to fight someone -
Wilson Elected
he won -
Zimmerman Telegram
a german secret coding to Mexico -
Espionage Act
banned messages that were going to harm the U.S. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
regulating child labor -
Sedition Act
removed anyone writing against the U.S. -
Armistice Day
honoring veterans -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
principles of peace -
Versailles Peace Conference
A formal meeting -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
a rejected treaty -
Wilson Stroke
Wilson has a stroke and dies -
League of Nations
maintaining world peace -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
white supremacist group who killed blacks because of their color
