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Tuskegee Institute
A school for African Americans in the city of Tuskegee -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A law restricting immigration into the United States. This was a 10-year law banning restricting Chinese immigration into the United States, specifically Chinese laborers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act fixed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines on business practices. This made the railroad company's crazy prices drop down to reasonable pricing. -
Jane Addams-Hull house
One of the first social settlements. It was founded in Chicago by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was one of the first laws to prohibit trusts. This was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A law that was passed stating that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This segregated trains into white and black cars. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities act
First law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources -
McKinley Assassinated
President William McKinley was fatally shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. This shows the value of his Presidency to large corporations. -
Coal miner strike
This strike started when mine operators refused to meet with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America. Wanted higher pay, shorter workweek, and recognition of their union. -
The jungle published
This is one of the most famous and significant muckraking novels. This exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards. the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 because of this book and the public response to the book. -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
This was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. This included the Three C's- conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
Food and Drug Act
After "The Jungle" the Government passed a law that would stop the manufacture, sale, and transportation of contaminated, misbranded, toxic, harmful foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors. -
Federal meat inspection act
An act that banned the sale of contaminated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and assured that livestock were killed and processed under sanitary conditions. -
16th Amendment
This amendment gave Congress power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived. -
NAACP formed
The nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization -
Taft wins
Won the election -
Muckrakers
Muckrakers are journalists who gave way to investigative reporting and war correspondents they also provided accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships. -
Booker T. Washington
He was an educator and reformer and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans -
W.E.B. Dubois
One of the foremost Black intellectuals of his era -
Triangle shirtwaist fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of Manhattan was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. 146 dead. -
17th Amendment
This allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
Wilson Elected
Woodrow Wilson won the election -
Federal Reserve act
This act created the Federal Reserve, to establish economic stability -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This act was put in place to get rid of unethical business practices, like monopolies, and support numerous rights of labor. -
Jim crow laws
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation -
The birth of a nation movie
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the relationship of two families in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras over the course of several years -
Rise of KKK
An American white supremacist terrorist hate group that gained popularity in the early 20th century -
18th Amendment
An amendment that prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. -
19th Amendment
Removed gender restrictions of voting for all.