Progressive Era

By wes0905
  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute
    Provide students with both academic and vocational training.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese immigration was banned for 10 years for labor.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    It stops the railroad monopoly.
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House
    It helped child law and women's suffrage.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    It limited the market power.
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers
    Journalists and novelists expose corrupt businesses.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    It made Plessy less powerful and Ferguson wanted to have the government to be more powerful.
  • Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
    A group of white supremacist
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    racial segregation
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated
    Leon Czolgosz was anarchist and shot the president.
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike
    People wanted better pay and better working conditions.
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published
    Unsanitary conditions in meat packing.
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act
    Prohibited the sale of misbranded food and drugs.
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act
    It made the company have good sanitary conditions and misbranded meat
  • Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal
    The Square Deal was to conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and customer protection.
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
    It protect land from people buying and taking its natural resources.
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins
    Taft became president.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    Congress has the power to collect tax on income.
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed
    Civil rights organization.
  • W.E.B. Dubois

    W.E.B. Dubois
    Was a foremost Black intellectual.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    It made it have fire safety measures for the whole country.
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected
    Wilson became president.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    It created the federal reserve system.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    Allowing voters to cast direct voters for US senators.
  • Clayton Antitrust act

    Clayton Antitrust act
    Price fixing and monopolies and rights for labor.
  • The Birth of a Nation movie

    The Birth of a Nation movie
    It is a movie about two families in the civil war.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    Was an American educator, author, and several presidents.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    Manufacture, sale, and transportation.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    The vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US by sex.