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Booker T. Washington
He was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. -
W.E.B. Dubois
He was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor. -
Tuskegee Institute
It was founded as an idea for a school for African Americans in the city of Tuskegee actually began two years prior -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry and particularly monopolistic practices. -
Jane Addams-Hull House
The Hull House became a central gathering place and allowed reformer Jane Addams to help many immigrants in its Chicago neighborhood. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
An antitrust law prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Apr 13, 1896 – May 18, 1896
A landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which they ruled the racial segregation laws and did not violate the U.S. Constitution -
McKinley Assassinated
25th President of the US. He was shot on the grounds of the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. -
Coal Miner Strike
May 12, 1902 - October 23, 1902
It was a strike by the Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil"
The History of the Standard Oil Company is credited with the breakup of Standard Oil when the Supreme Court found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
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 US -
The Jungle Published
The Jungle is a novel by the journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. It portrays the harsh conditions and terrible lives of immigrants in the US, Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
Established the first national historic preservation policy for the United States -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food -
Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act 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 FDA. -
Muller v. Oregon
Was a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work hours than allotted to men. -
Taft Wins
Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states. Vermont and Utah, He was the first Republican to lose the Northern states. -
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 -
Muckrackers
Was any of a group of American writers identified with Pre-WW1 reform and exposé writing. -
Urban League
Colloquially, the Urban League was often called the “State Department” of African-American affairs, while the NAACP was known as the “War Department.” -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
A factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, -
Wilson Elected
A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. -
Federal Reserve Act
It was implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Underwood Tariff or the Underwood-Simmons Act, re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
16th Amendment
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. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s-Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program reflected on three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Department of Labor Established
Its' a cabinet-level department of the U.S. government, responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics. -
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. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
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 newly created Federal Trade Commission enforced the Clayton Antitrust Act and prevented unfair methods of competition -
Trench Warfare
type of combat in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. -
The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic. -
Lusitania sunk
a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, according to the Library of Congress. -
Zimmerman Telegram
a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I -
Espionage Act
prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
a United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor. -
Sedition Act
the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” -
Armistice Day
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918 -
18th amendment
prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours -
Versailles Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
On July 10, 1919, the president of the United States, for the first time since 1789, personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. -
Wilson Stroke
Wilson had intended to seek a third term in office but suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. -
19th Amendment
Women got the Right to Vote -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance. -
League of Nations
the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.