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Booker T. Washington
He was an author, educator, orator, philanthropist -
W.E.B Dubois
He was an sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-African civil rights activist -
Tuskegee Institute
It provided students with both academic and training -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The United States first major immigration law. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Federal law to design to regulate the railroad -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Educated women sharing all types of knowledge to people that needs help -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court ruled that laws regarding racial segregation -
McKinley Assassinated
President McKinley was killed from bullet wounds by Leon Czolgosz. -
Coal Miner Strike- 1902
United Mine Workers of America in the eastern Pennsylvania -
Muckrackers
Journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era -
The Jungle Published
The most famous novel during the muckraking novels -
Teddy Roosevelt's - Square Deal
conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
law that makes it illegal to adulterate meat and meat products being sold as food -
Food and Drug Act
It prohibits interstate commerce in adulterated foods, drinks and drugs. -
NAACP formed
A organization that abolition of segregation and discrimination -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City -
Taft Wins
Taft and Roosevelt winning the electoral votes. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson won against Taft and Roosevelt winning the electoral votes -
16th Amendment
the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes -
17th amendment
power directly to voters in each state. -
Federal Reserve Act
The central banking system -
Clayton Antitrust Act
antitrust law and defines unethical business practices -
The Birth of a Nation movie (1915)
Two families : Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons -
18th amendment
The prohibited manufacture, sale, or transportation liquor -
Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
racist organization -
19th amendment
The granted women the right to vote -
Jim Crow Laws
The state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation