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Booker T. Washington
Founder and First President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute -
Tuskegee Institute
Founded in a one-room shanty, near Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, thirty adults represented the first class -
Chinese Exclusion Act
was a law that provided a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S. -
Interstate Commerce Act
which applied the Constitution’s “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Most of the people living in the area at the time were recently arrived immigrants from Europe. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
"comprehensive charter of economic liberty aimed at preserving free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade." -
Plessy V. Ferguson
was a decision of racial segregation over the next half-century ruling provided legal jurisdiction for segregation on trains, buses, and other public places. -
Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal
Progressive groups made tremendous strides on issues involving democracy, efficiency, and social justice -
McKinley Assassinated
He was shot while making a public speech, Leon Czolgosz -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson was a leader in the progressive movement he was making the world a safe place for democracy -
The Jungle Published
filthy and falsely labeled meat but ignored the plight of the workers -
Food and Drug Act
-after "The Jungle" the gov't passed a law that protected consumers from bad food and bad drugs -
Federal Meat Inspection
requires that all meat sold commercially be inspected and passed to ensure that it is safe, wholesome, and properly labeled -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
Law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands. -
Taft Wins
Theodore Roosevelt promised publicly not to seek the presidency again in 1908 -
16th Amendment
established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax -
NAACP formed
the nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born -
Muckrackers
Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New York City burned, killing 146 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history. -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy -
17th Amendment
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators -
Clayton Antitrust Act
that defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor -
The Birth of a Nation movie (1915)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. -
18th amendment
This prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol and liquor -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
KKK was a violent, racist organization born in the post Civil War South -
19th amendment
The 19th Amendment allowed women the right to be able to vote. -
W. E. B. Dubois
was an African American writer, teacher, sociologist and activist whose work transformed the way that the lives of Black citizens were seen in American society -
Jim Crow Laws
Were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character.