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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1895 and 1915. -
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W.E.B. Dubois
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. -
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee University was the first black college to be designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark, and the only black college to be designated a National Historic Site, a district administered by the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of Interior. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. -
The Interstate Commerce act
The act addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business. -
Jane Addams- Hull House
One of the first social settlements in North America. It was founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to aid needy immigrants. -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. Such laws remained in force until 1965. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In short, segregation did not in itself constitute unlawful discrimination. -
The Assassination of William McKinley
William McKinley became the third U.S. president to be assassinated after he was fatally shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. -
Coal Miner Strike- 1902
President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting at the temporary White House at 22 Lafayette Place, Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine. -
The Jungle (Published)
Upton Sinclair (The author of ¨The Jungle¨) intended to expose "the inferno of exploitation of the typical American factory worker at the turn of the 20th Century. -
Roosevelt´s Square deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
The first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. -
The Federal Meat Inspection Act
The act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
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 by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells. -
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. -
Muckrackers
They were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. -
Taft Wins
The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan. This made him the 27th president of the United States. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Leading to the transformation of the labor code of New York State and to the adoption of fire safety measures that served as a model for the whole country. -
Wilson elected
Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
17th Amendment
Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Federal Reserve Act
The legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
A piece of legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1914, defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
The Birth of a Nation Movie (1915)
The three-hour silent film The Birth of a Nation did “incalculable harm” to Black Americans by creating a justification for prejudice, racism, and discrimination for decades to follow. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors..." and was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919. The movement to prohibit alcohol began in the United States in the early nineteenth century. -
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. -
The Rise of the KKK
During the 1920s, cultural conflict and modernization helped resuscitate the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Whereas the original KKK was a violent, racist organization born in the post-Civil War South, the modern Klan was driven by somewhat different concerns. Many white, lower-middle-class, Protestant Americans in the North and Midwest were fearful that immigrants were changing traditional American culture, and they responded with anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism. -
The Food and Drug act
An act that Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).