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National American Women's Suffrage Association Formation
Their goal was to get most states to pass women's suffrage and to get the Congress to pass an amendment on women's suffrage. The very first president was Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other notable presidents were Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were passed in order to limit the amount of rights African Americans had. -
Plessy v. Ferguson Case Ruling
The Supreme Court had ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th amendment. Segregated areas had to be "separate but equal", but this was not the case. For example, white train cars were of much higher quality than black train cars. Racial segregation remained legal for the next 60 years. -
New York Tenement House Law
This law established model housing code for safety and sanitation. It included minimum size and window requirements, one full bathroom per two families, and indoor plumbing. It also set up the Tenement House Department to perform inspections on tenements. -
Women's Trade Union League
The league was formed after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. They had advocated worker's rights in the garment industry. -
National Child Labor Committee Formation
The committee had investigated and collected evidence on child labor in order to pass a law to get rid of child labor. -
The Jungle Publishing
Upton Sinclair had published The Jungle, exposing the harsh reality of the meat industry, causing Roosevelt to pass two food laws. -
Meat Inspection Act
After reading The Jungle, Roosevelt authorized federal inspection of meat products. Meat sources had to be inspected before and after death & sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants were higher. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act had regulated production of sale of food and medicines. The FDA prevented poisonous or spoiled products from being sold to the public. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founding
W.E.B. DuBois had founded the NAACP, with the goal of equal rights for African Americans. Their tactic was to fix the laws, if something is not included in a law, it cannot protect you. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The fire had began because of a dropped cigarette, but the women who were not warned of the fire when it was small became trapped on their floor due to locked exits. Many women had died trapped in the fire, getting pushed into the elevator shaft, jumping out of windows, and falling off of the collapsed fire escape. This disaster had opened many people's eyes on how dangerous working conditions really were. -
The National Women's Party Founding
Founded by Alice Paul, the NWP was a much more radical group than the NAWSA. The NWP wanted attention, good or bad, in order to spread the idea of women's suffrage quicker than the NAWSA. Many of the women involved in the NWP had ended up being imprisoned from crimes committed to spread the NWP. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act had prohibited products being sold made by children under 14 years old. Children under 16 could only work from 6am to 7pm and not more than 8 hours a day and 6 days a week. The act was enforced by assigned inspectors to inspect workplaces that produce goods for sale, with full access to the facility during unannounced visits. Anyone in violation would have to pay a fine or be imprisoned. The act was deemed unconstitutional in 1918 during Hammer vs. Dagenhart. -
18th Amendment (going into effect)
This amendment had not banned the consumption of alcohol, but the manufacturing, selling, and transportation of alcohol. The amendment was difficult to enforce, hurt the U.S. economy, and led to smuggling, bootlegging, and the rise of organized crime. -
19th Amendment Ratification
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. It was President Woodrow Wilson's gift to thank the women for helping out in WWI.
