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Tuskegee Institute
This university was founded by Booker T. Washington with the purpose of educating people and teaching them to use their voices to make a change. Students did everything on their own - including making their own buildings and food. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Aimed to drastically reduce/eliminate Chinese immigration to the U.S. because they ¨endangered¨ natural Americans -
Interstate Commerce Act
Regulated the way businesses could run monopolies after the railroad industry gained too much power over people. -
Jane Addams Hull House
Jane Addams opened the Hull House to serve European immigrants who recently arrived in the U.S. It cultivated a lot of activists and helped establish child labor laws, women's suffrage, and better compensation for women. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibited monopolies to encourage competition by making cartels and price fixing illegal. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Constituted separate but equal facilities for different races to remain segregated. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were legislation which supported racial segregation and remained in force until 1965. -
Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
Teddy Roosevelt's goals as president were to conserve natural resources, control major corporations, and protect consumers. -
McKinley Assassinated
William McKinley was making a public appearance in Buffalo, NY when he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. -
Coal Miner Strike
A bunch of coal miners went on strike and started to cause a coal famine. Roosevelt met with workers and business to come up with a compromise that gave power to labor unions. -
W.E.B. Dubois
He was a civil rights activist who fought for the equality of blacks. He's written many essays and given many speeches on the injustice between races and worked to close the gap. -
The Jungle Published
A novel written by Upton Sinclair that sought to expose corruption in the government and in businesses. -
Roosevelt Antiquities Act
Established archeological lands / national parks as important public resources -
Food and Drug Act
Manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous and unsafe food, medicine, and liquor became against the law and required all consumable goods to be upheld to a certain standard. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A law that required meat to be butchered and sold under specific standards to ensure the quality and safety of the meat. -
Taft wins
Roosevelt nominated William Taft from the republican party as president. Taft ended up beating William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1908! -
NAACP formed
National Advancement Association of Colored People was founded in New York City as a civil rights organization to fight for justice and social equality for colored people. -
Muckrackers
Journalists who wrote to expose corruption in businesses and government, influencing legislation and strengthening workers and consumers in people. -
Rise of KKK
The KKK was a white supremacy group that believed whites were the superior race and would carry out hate crimes against other "inferior" races. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
A factory fire in the Greenwich Village in Manhattan, NYC. It was the deadliest industrial fire in the US and led to the introduction of more workplace safety laws. -
17th Amendment
This amendment changed the way voting for senators was done by allowing Americans to vote directly for the senator of their choice. -
Wilson elected
Woodrow Wilson was elected president as a member of the democratic party in 1912. He influenced a lot of economic policies and led the U.S. into WWI in 1917. -
16th Amendment
Gave Congress the authority to implement an income tax not dependent on population. -
Federal Reserve Act
A piece of legislation was passed to establish the Federal Reserve system. It aimed to increase economic stability by creating a central bank to oversee the economy. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This piece of legislation outlines unethical business practices as well as sets standards for fair labor. -
Booker T. Washington
He was an author and educator who established Tuskegee University and was a member of the black elites. He was born a slave but by the end of his lifetime, he was a free man who fought for equal opportunity between all races. -
The Birth of a Nation movie
A silent drama about the American Civil War and the struggles people went through -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. It was ratified because so many were in favor of the prohibition of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
Allowed women to vote by basically saying it was against the Constitution to deny someone the right to vote solely based on sex.