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Progressive Era

By Djjjj

  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute
    The 1st institutation of higher learning African Americans

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first signifigant law that restricting immigration into the U.S. This act provided a 10 year ban on the chinese laborers immigration.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    They made guidelines on how railroads could settle railroads business stop monopolies.

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    It stops things that restrict commerce and competition when it comes to the marketplace.

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson
    A decision that racial segregation laws did not violate the constititution as long as it was equal in quality(separate but equal)

  • Kinley Assassinated

    Kinley Assassinated
    He was shot by Leon Czolgosz on Sep. 14

  • Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
    He called this the square deal inferring that everyone gain fairly from this deal. This deal caused tremendous strides on issues involving democracy and efficiency.

  • The Jungle (published)

    The Jungle (published)
    Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the inferno of exploitation of the typical American factory worker.

  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act
    After the "Jungle" the government passed a law that protect consumers from bad food and bad drugs.

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    This was an interracial endeavor that was created to advance justice for African Americans.

  • The Rise of the KKK

    The Rise of the KKK
    A racist southern supremacist group that rebelled against the republican Republican Party's.

  • Murckrackers

    Murckrackers
    Journalists and novelists of the Progressive era who sought to expose corruption in big businesses and government.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire
    A factory in New York city was burned killing 146 people. It is was one of the most popular incidents in industrial history.

  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected
    Wilson defeated Republica William Howard Taft and third party nominee Teddy Roosevelt.

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment
    The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or any state.

  • The 18th Amendment

    The 18th Amendment
    This prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating alchohol.

  • Jane Addams - Hull House

    Jane Addams - Hull House
    A lot of people living in this specific area were people who had just arrived from Europe.