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NAWSA is founded
The most mainstream and nationally visible pro-suffrage group. They pushed for suffrage at the state level. NAWSA stands for National American Woman Suffrage Association -
Initiative and referendum system adopted in South Dakota
First state to adopt initiative and referendum on a statewide level. -
Direct primaries held in Minnesota
Evolved as a result of an effort to correct the abuses of the party caucus and convention system. -
Eugene Debs runs for president on Socialist ticket
Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920 -
Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
He served from 1901 to 1906. He pushed for a direct primary system, tax reform legislation, and railroad rate control. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
He became president after William McKinley's assassination. -
Tarbell and Steffens articles appear in McClure's
Lincoln Steffens specialized in muckracking journalism. He became editor of McClure's Magazine. He recruited Ida Tarbell as a staff writer. Ida Tarbell wrote articles on John D. Rockefeller and oil. -
Dead Indian Land Act, Reclamation Act
Dead Indian Land Act- allowed Indian landowners to sell lands they inherited even if they were still in trust Reclamation Act- funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West -
W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk is published
It is a collection of essays. It explored a variety of subjects of black life, from the history of the Freedmen's Bureau and black music to Du Bois' experiences teaching in rural Georgia and Tennessee. -
Elkins Railroad Act
Authorized the Instertate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates -
Direct primary enacted in Wisconsin
Robert LaFollette pushed for creation of a direct primary in Wisconsin in 1902. The Wisconsin Supreme Court passed the nation's first direct primary law. -
Department of Commerce and Labor is established
It was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. It was created during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. -
Initiative system adopted in Oregon
The man that is in charge of it all is William Simon U'Ren" -
Northern Securities case
Theodore Roosevelt's first example of his use of anti-trust legislation to dismantle a monopoly. -
National Child Labor Committee is established
Legislation to prohibit against certain types of child labor -
Theodore Roosevelt is elected
Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency upon William McKinley's assassination. It was easy for him to win the election. -
Lochner v. New York
New York encacted a statute forbidding bakers to work more than 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day. The Court ruled in favor of Lochner and against the state of New York. -
IWW is founded
Industrial Workers of the World opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions. -
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Hepburn Act
Meat Inspection Act- ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions, mandated that the USDA inspect all livestock before and after they were slaughtered and processed for human consumption Pure Food and Drug Act- provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products, and poisonous patent medicines Hepburn Act- gave the ICC power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published
The book is about a meat packing industry and showed how filthy and unsanitary it was. It showed how dead rats and rat waste were mixed in with the meat. It forced the Meat Inspection Act to come about. -
Panic of 1907
It was a financial crisis that arose as a result of a plan to limit the popularity of trust companies. -
Muller v. Oregon
Promoted the health and welfare of female workers. It led to equality in the workplace for years to come. -
Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Controversy over the future of conservation. This affair revealed deep fault lines in the Republican Party and ended the friendship between William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. -
NAACP is founded
Created by W.E.B. Du Bois. Supported political equality for African Americans. Advocated for civil rights. -
Taft is elected president
Hand picked by Roosevelt to succeed him as President -
Mann Act
Addressed prostitution, human trafficking, it made it a crime to transport someone between states for the purpose of prostitution -
Woodrow Wilson is elected president, Roosevelt runs as Progressive candidate
He wanted to regulate big business. He called his plan of Progressive laws the “New Freedom.” The Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission were established. -
National Coal Strike
First national strike by coal miners in Britain. The main goal was to secure a minimum wage. After 37 days the strike ended when the government passed the minimum wage law. -
Children's Bureau for Department of Labor is established
Addressed the needs of children and their well-being -
Congressional Union is established
It was led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. It campaigned for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage. -
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments ratified
Sixteenth Amendment- allows the Congress to levy an income tax without division among the states or basing it on the United Stated Census Seventeenth Amendment- provided for direct popular election of senators -
Underwood Tariff Act, Federal Reserve Act
Underwood Tariff Act- Enacted overall reduction in tariffs, made manufacturers more efficient, and provided customers with competitive pricing Federal Reserve Act- Woodrow Wilson's most significant accomplishment; the banking system was put under governmental supervision -
Federal Trade Commission Act, Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission Act- charged for enforcing antitrust laws and preventing the unlawful suppression of competition Clayton Antitrust Act- supplemented existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Limited work hours of children, Congress regulates interstate commerce produced by child labor, and began a new program of federal regulation in industry -
Eighteenth Amendment ratified
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol and their imports and exports -
Nineteenth Amendment ratified
Gave women the right to vote
