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Sedition Act
Allowed the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of any and all who are deemed a threat, or who may be publishing false, malicious, or scandalous writing against the US government -
Rise of the KKK
An American white supremacist and terrorist hate group that was founded by southerners who were opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War -
Jim Crow Laws
Certain state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in most of the southern United States that had been enacted after the Civil War -
Booker T. Washington
An American educator, author, orator, and advisor to several US presidents. He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute -
Tuskegee Institute
A historically black, private land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was designated as a historical site by National park Service -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur in 1882. This law prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers -
Interstate Commerce Act
A United States federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry and it's monopolistic activities -
Jane Addams Full House
One of the first social settlements founded in North America, and co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr -
Sherman Antitrust Act
A law that deems the rule of free competition among those participating in the economy -
Plessy vs Ferguson
The landmark decision of the United States Supreme court that ruled racial segregation lawwss did not violate the US Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality -
McKinley Assassinated
The 25th president of the United States who was shot in New York six months into his second term -
Ida Tarbell
Founder of the American Magazine in 1906, writing a series of articles about John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Trust -
Niagara Movement
Black Civil Rights organization founded by an activist group. They demanded equal economic and educational opportunity, and the rights to vote -
Muller vs Oregon
A court case where it was considered whether or not a state could limit the hours in which a woman could work, while not limiting the hours of men -
"The Jungle" Published
A novel written by Upton Sinclair. The book portrays the harsh lives and the exploitation of immigrants in Chicago and other cities -
Muckrakers
Journalists in the United States Progressive Era who expose the corrupt in established unions and their leaders -
Roosevelt- Antiquities Act
One of the first United State laws to provide general protection for any kind of cultural or natural resource -
The Food and Drug Act
This act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce. It was the foundation for the first consumer protection agency -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat products sold as food. It ensures that meat and meat products are strictly regulated under clean and sanitary conditions -
W.E.B Dubois
A proponent of Pan-Africanism that helped organize several Pan-African congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies -
NAACP Formed
A Civil Rights organization that was formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans -
Urban League
Formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. Nonpartisan historic civil rights organization, advocating for justice -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
One of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of the city and the United States -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
A domestic program that reflected Teddy's three major goals: natural resource conservation, corporation control, and consumer protection -
16th Amendment
An amendment passed by Congress in 1909, and then ratified Feb. 1913, effectively overruling the Supreme Court -
Department of Labor Established
This department was established in response to years of lobbing with organized labor for a voice in the federal government -
17th Amendment
This amendment gave people the right to vote for their senators, which is called a direct election, where the people get to choose by majority who gets to be in office -
Underwood- Simmons Tariff
This re-established a federal income tax in the United States and significantly lowered the tariff rates -
Federal Reserve Act
This act was passed by congress and signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. This created the Federal Reserve System and Central Banking System -
Trench Warfare
A type of land warfare using fighting lines in military trenches where soldiers can be protected from small fire and heavy weaponry -
Federal Trade Commission
An independent agency of the United States, administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair market competition -
Federal Trade Commission Act
Empowered the agency to investigate and prevent unfair methods of economic competition, and unfair or deceptive acts affecting commerce -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This is part of the United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the regime -
The Birth of A Nation
One of the longest and most profitable film produced at the time, and the most artistically advanced for it's day. It secured the future for feature-length films -
Lusitania Sunk
A ship sunk by a German torpedo off of the Irish coast. Considered the fastest and most luxurious passenger ship to have sailed at the time, and was believed to be invulnerable, like the Titanic -
Wilson Election
Woodrow Wilson defeated the Republican nomineee in the presidential election -
Zimmermann Telegram
The telegram stated that if Germany and the United States went to war, Germany gave Mexico a promise to help recover territory that was lost in the 1800's -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson stood before Congress's joint session to request war on Germany. Two days later, the United States senate voted in support of Wilson -
Espionage Act
This act prohibited obtaining information, recording or photography, or copying descriptions of any information relating to national defense -
Hammer V.S Dagenhart
A Supreme Court decision in which the Court denied a federal law regulating child labor. Overruled by United States V.S Darby Lumber Co -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a proposal made by President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress that completely outlined his vision for ending WW1 in a way that would prevent it from repeating -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
The Senate had rejected the treaty. which formally ended WW1, in part because President Wilson had failed to take the senators objections into consideration -
18th Amendment
Denied the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors, which was ratified by the states. The prohibition of the alcohol movement that started in the early nineteenth century -
Versailles Peace Conference
The creation of the League of Nations and five peace treaties with the defeated states, and awarding of German and Ottoman overseas possessions as mandates -
Wilson Had a Stroke
President Woodrow Wilson suffered from a deaadly stroke that had left him incapacitated for the rest of his presidency in 1921 -
Armistice Day
Commemorated on Nov. 11th to mark the Armistice signed between the Allies of WW1 and Germany -
League of Nations
One of the first worldwide intergovernmental organizations created after WW1 to try and provide forum for resolving international disputes and achieving world peace -
19th Amendment
Eventually came to be known as the Susan B. ANthony amendment. This amendment had guaranteed the right to vote for all American women