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Tuskegee Institute
The first institution of higher learning for African Americans -
Jim Crow Laws
Enforced racial segregation -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The first law that got passed so America could stop Chinese immigrants from coming over -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act was designed to regulate the railroad industry and its monopolistic practices. The act required the railroad to be "just and reasonable". -
Sherman antitrust Act
A law of Congress passed that prohibits monopolies. Mainly to have economic fairness -
Jane Addams-Hull House
House in Chicago that aided European immigrants -
Muckrackers
Journalists during the Progressive Era who wanted to expose corruption -
Plessy V Ferguson
Since segregation laws did not provide equal protection or liberties to non-whites the ruling was not consistent with the 14th Amendment -
McKinley Assassinated
President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon -
Coal Miner Strike 1902
lead to labor peace -
W. E. B Dubois
Primarily targeted racism in his polemic, which protested strongly against lynching. Jim Crow laws and discrimination in education and employment -
The Jungle Published
A book that was meant to exploit the worker's factory conditions -
Food & Drug Act
After "The Jungle" the gov't passed a law that protected consumers from bad food and bad drugs -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Prevented misbranded meat and meat products to make sure sanitary conditions are safe -
Teddy Roosevelts Square Deal
A program that reflected his 3 major tasks conserving natural resources -
Teddy Roosevelt's Antiquities Act
The Act is the law that established sites and lands are important public resources -
Taft Wins
Theodore Roosevelt promised publicly not to seek the presidency again in 1908 -
16th Amendment
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population -
NAACP Formed
An interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group -
Rise of KKK
A vehicle for white Southern resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equally for Black Americans -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
A factory in Manhattan that caught fire and was the deadliest industrial fire in Manhattan -
Wilson Elected
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was elected president -
17th Amendment
Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S senators -
Federal Reserve Act
Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor -
Booker T. Washington
An educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now Tuskegee University, and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans -
The Birth of a Nation movie
Film's success was both a consequence of and a contributor to racial segregation throughout the U.S. in response to the film's depictions of black people and Civil War history -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors -
19th Amendment
The rights of citizens of the U. S to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S or by any state on account of sex