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Chinese Exclusion Act
The chinese exclusion act prohibited all immigration chinese workers from the united states for 10 years. The law made exceptions for teachers, merchants, students, travelers, and diplomats. -
Interstate Commerce Act
It addressed the problems of the railroad monopolies by setting boundaries for how the railroads could do any business -
Sherman antitrust Act
It was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress that prohibit trusts. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy was asked to sit in a white train car and was arrested for resisting when the whites told him to get out. He was convicted even though the train cars violated the 13th and 14th amendments. -
McKinley Assassinated
He was shot by Leon Czolgosz. He was an anarchist and he shot the President during one of his public appearances. -
Coal Miner Strike
A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
Muckrakers
They were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. -
The Jungle Published
The Jungle is a fictional novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business. -
Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal
The Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
It was the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands. -
Food And Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
An American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbranded meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. -
NAACP Formed
The nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was born -
Jane Addams- Hull House
draws on the legacy of international peace activist, feminist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jane Addams and the other social reformers who lived and worked alongside their immigrant neighbors to create social change and expand access to democracy. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
It was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men– who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
Taft wins
Theodore Roosevelt promised publicly not to seek the presidency again in 1908. While he later regretted that decision, he felt bound by it and vigorously promoted William Howard Taft as his successor. -
16th Amendment
It grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. -
17th Amendment
allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
The act is legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Clayton Antitrust act
It defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
W.E.B. Dubois
He was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist -
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. was committed to improving the lives of African-Americans after the Civil War. Washington advocated economic independence through self-help, hard work, and a practical education. -
Booker T. Washington
He was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. -
The Birth Of A Nation Movie
It was lauded for its technical virtuosity. It was the first non-serial American 12-reel film ever made.Its plot, part fiction and part history, chronicles 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—the pro-Union Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Camerons -
18th Amendment
It prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors..." -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation. -
Rise Of KKK (Early 20th Century)
A secret society dedicated to white supremacy in the United States, the (KKK) has existed in various forms since it was first organized in Tennessee shortly after the end of the Civil War (1861-65). The original Klan of Reconstruction was suppressed by the federal government in the early 1870s, but in following decades its violent activities were increasingly rationalized and even romanticized. -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.