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Jim Crow Laws
A collection of statues that legalized racial segregation. -
Tuskegee Institute
It was the first institute that gave African Americans a chance to get an education because they were discriminated and couldn't get an education in an all white school. -
Chinese Exclusive Act
Restricted Chinese immigrants from coming to the US and it made Chinese ineligible for naturalization. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Eliminated unfair business practices and established the right of the federal government to supervise railroads. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed and prohibited monopolies, contracts, and conspiracies that restrained trade. -
Muckrakers
They are journalists that wrote and exposed institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A racial segregation case from a incident of Homer Plessy when he refused to sit in a car for blacks ("separate but equal" doctrine). -
Jane Addams-Hull House
It was place for poor and needy people to live in, it provided education, a gym, and a gym. It was also open to immigrants. -
McKinley Assassinated
President William McKinley was shot twice to his chest by Leon Czolgosz an anarchist because he thought he was the cause of a corrupt government. -
Coal Miner Strike
Coal miners from Pennsylvania went on a strike to have their wages increased, 9 hour work day, and have the right to unionize. -
Ida Tarbell-"History of Standard Oil"
Ida Tarbell was a journalist that exposed the Standard Oil Company's and caused the Supreme Court to break its monopoly. -
Niagara Movement
A movement that was asking for a change for African Americans socially and politically. -
The Jungle Published
Is a novel written by Upton Sinclair, that described the harsh conditions and lives of immigrants that lived in Chicago and other industrialized cities. -
Food and Drug Act
This act provided the federal inspection of food products and medicine and called for true labeling. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
This act set cleanliness requirements for meat packers and made it illegal to misbrand meat. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
This act allows the president to proclaim national monuments to preserve prehistoric, historic,and other properties without getting the approval of Congress. -
Taft Wins
William Howard Taft won the presidential election and defeated William Jennings Bryan. -
Muller v. Oregon
Court case that made a law limiting the women to work no more than 10 hours a day -
NAACP formed
Organization that was for African Americans to get justice -
Urban League
Civil rights organization based against racial discrimination, economic, and social justice for African Americans. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
A fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and quickly spread to the other two floors above it. The factory failed to meet safe workplace requirements and workers were in a helpless situation. -
Wilson Elected
Democrats nominated him and was supported by William Jennings Bryan. -
Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal
Part of Roosevelt's campaign speech that limited the power of trust, promoted public health and safety, and it improved working conditions. -
Federal Reserve Act
It created economic stability in the US by having a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
It lowered tariff rates. -
16th Amendment
Congress can collect taxes from your income -
17th Amendment
allows direct election of US Senators -
Department of Labor Established
It protects the rights of workers, improve working conditions, and promotes good relations between labor and management. -
Federal Trade Commission
It keeps the US economy both fair and free and prevents deceptive and unfair business practices. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
It helped form the FTC -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This act prevented companies from buying stocks from competing companies (anti-monopoly) and supported/strengthened the Sherman Act. -
The Birth of a Nation
A film that was by D.W. Griffith that mainly showed racial propaganda. -
Lusitania sunk
It was a British owned steamship that got hit a German U-boat without getting a warning. -
Booker T. Washington
Born in VA, freed from slavery, Civil Rights leader, and believed in equality for blacks. Founder of Tuskegee University. -
Zimmerman Telegram
A tool that helped communicate secretly and offered financial aid to Mexico if they agreed to enter conflicts that German could have with the US in the future. -
Wilson Asks for War
Wilson declared war on Germany because people buoyed against him and having neutrality in order to make the world safe. -
Espionage Act
This act made it a crime for any person to go against the U.S. armed forces and to stop the U.S. from winning against the country's enemy. -
Trench Warfare
Warfare that happens between trenches that are dug up in the ground, they attack each other. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
A speech give by Wilson to show his view on how to end WW1. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
A court case that was mainly about child labor laws and the decision was that it was unconstitutional. -
Sedition Act
An act that didn't allow people to talk, print, write, or publish bad about the form of government. -
Versailles Peace Conference
At the end of WW2 they produced the Treaty of Versailles. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles -
18th Amendment
Prohibition of alcohol. -
Wilson Stroke
Wilson suffered from exhaustion and a stroke almost costing his life, but he slowly regained health and was partially paralyzed and didn't die until 1924 -
Armistice Day
A holiday celebrated in the U.S. to honor military veterans and people who served in the armed forces. -
Rise of KKK
The KKK rose from promotions of The Birth of a Nation and was an organization in southern states that men hid their identities and would torture or kill at night to stop African Americans from getting their freedom. -
League of Nations
international diplomatic group that would solve problems between countries before they got to a warfare. -
19th Amendment
Women have the right to vote. -
W.E.B. Dubois
African American who made work that changed how black citizens were seen in America and is a civil rights activist.
