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Jim Crow Laws
Laws post-civil war that enforced segregation. -
Tuskegee Institute
A black school -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The act provided a 10-year ban on Chinese labor immigrants. It also restricted the Chinese people already living here. It was renewed and made permanent in 1902. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A law setting guidelines on how to run a railroad business addressing railroad monopolies. -
Jane Addams-Hull House
It was a place for poor people to receive different types of education. It helped establish child labor laws, women's suffrage, and workmen's compensation as well as other key issues in the progressive era. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Layed out the rule for free competition in commerce. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
It was a court case fighting the Separate Car Act. Plessy was fighting it and he lost. -
McKinley Assassinated
Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley at a public convention in Buffalo, NY. -
Coal Miner Strike
United Mine Workers of America wanted higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition of the union. -
The Jungle is Published
Written by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker whose purpose was to expose the horrible working conditions of meatpacking industries. -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square deal
Program that reflected his 3 goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
Roosevelt Antiquities Act
The first law to provide federal protection for cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interests. -
Food and Drug Act
After "The Jungle" was published, the government passed a law that prevented the manufacturing or selling of bad food, drugs/medicine, and liquors. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
It made it illegal to sell bad meat as food. -
Taft Wins
He won the 32nd presidential election. -
16th Amendment
Makes taxes based on population. -
NAACP formed
Nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization. -
Muckrackers
Journalists who looked for and exposed corruption in big businesses. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial fire in Manhattan and one of the most deadly in US history. It is the reason for fire codes today. -
Wilson Elected
Beat Taft and Roosevelt by a landslide. -
Booker T. Washington
American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Considered a black elite. He allowed separate but equal as long as whites would allow black economic growth and education. -
W.E.B. Dubois
He was a sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. -
17th Amendment
Voters can now cast direct votes for senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
It created a national currency and monetary system that in turn created a stable financial system. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Defines what an unethical business such as monopolies and money fixing. It also fixes the rights of labor. -
The Birth of a Nation movie
A silent epic drama that tells the story of 2 families on either side of the mason-dixon during the civil war. -
18th Amendment
No selling or drinking intoxicating liquors. -
Rise of the KKK
Rejuvenated by cultural conflict, modernization, and The Birth of a Nation, this time they really focused on anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. -
19th Amendment
Women can vote!