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Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a US federal law signed by President Chester Arthur on May 6, 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Muckrackers
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was enacted in 1890 to curtail combinations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality a doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal -
McKinley Assassinated
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
October 3, 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent shattering meeting at the temporary White House at in Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an expose about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history -
Niagara Movement
the Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of activists many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the United States -
the jungle published 1906
The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act of 1906, is an act that was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is an American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary environment -
Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
Muller v. Oregon
Muller v. Oregon was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. -
Taft Wins
Taft won 51.6% of the popular vote and carried most states outside of the Solid South. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
NAACP formed
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Urban League
National Urban League, American service agency founded for the purpose of eliminating racial segregation and discrimination and helping African Americans and other minorities to participate in all phases of American life. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Revenue Act of 1913, also known as the Underwood Tariff or the Underwood-Simmons Act, re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
16th Amendmen
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
Department of Labor Established
The organic act establishing the Department of Labor was signed on March 4, 1913, by a reluctant President William Howard Taft, the defeated and departing incumbent, just hours before Woodrow Wilson took office. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. -
Federal trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established the Federal Trade Commission. The Act was signed into law by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is a piece of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914. -
Trench Warfare
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. -
W.E.B. Dubois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. -
Lusitania sunk
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany -
Wilson Elected
The 1916 United States presidential election was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. -
Zimmerman Telegram
In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico to attack the US to provent them from joining WW1 -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to declare war on Germany, bringing America into the messy, tragic conflict it had long resisted. -
Espionage Act
Mitchell Palmer, the United States attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson, the Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
Hammer v. Dagenhart was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor. -
sedition act
Fearing that anti-war speeches and street pamphlets would undermine the war effort, President Woodrow Wilson and Congress passed two laws, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again. -
Armistice Day
Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am -
18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
Wilson Stroke
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated until the end of his presidency in 1921 -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
The Ku Klux Klan commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans -
jim crow laws
jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
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. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Founded on 10 January 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War
