The Progressive Era

  • Tuskegee Institute

    Tuskegee Institute
    This was an idea for a school for African Americans in the city of Tuskegee.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    A 10-year ban that states that Chinese immigrants cannot come to America for a "New Life".
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    This act addressed the problem of monopolies taking over the country.
  • Jane Addams Hull House

    Jane Addams Hull House
    A house to educate women to share all kinds of knowledge. From basic skills to arts and literature with poorer people in the neighborhood.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    This act prohibits old monopolies from buying new companies and sustaining competition.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    A Supreme Court case upheld that the "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated
    A man by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot President McKinley.
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike
    A strike by the coal miner laborers asking for better pay. President Roosevelt took the labor side with the lawsuit.
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers
    A group of journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who tried to expose corrupt businesses and governments.
  • Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal
    This was his domestic program, which reflected his major goals. The "Three C's" Conservation of natural resources, Control of corporations, and Consumer protection.
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published
    This is a book published by Upton Sinclair. This book was a book to expose the conditions of the Chicago stockyards.
  • Roosevelt's Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt's Antiquities Act
    The first U.S. law that provided general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands.
  • Federal Mean Inspection Act

    Federal Mean Inspection Act
    This act prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and ensured that meat and meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act
    This act prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs.
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins
    The presidential election after Roosevelt promised to only serve two terms.
  • NAACP formed

    NAACP formed
    The nation's largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire
    This was a fire that happened in a building in Manhattan. This was the first real problem leading to the transformation of the labor code.
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected
    Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election against Charles Hughes.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    This amendment grants us (U.S. citizens) to directly vote for U.S. senators.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    This act was to stabilize the economy in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    This amendment grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population.
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act
    This act made substantive and procedural changes to federal antitrust law. this act seeks to capture anticompetitive practices in their incipiency by prohibiting particular types of conduct.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    This man was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    The Birth of a Nation (1915)
    The film portrays the Civil War with both dramatic and battle scenes and tells the story of two families on either side of the Mason-Dixon line.
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    This amendment prohibited the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
  • Rise of the KKK

    Rise of the KKK
    A white supremacy group that wants the white race to be the only race below god.
  • 19th AMendment

    19th AMendment
    This amendment gives the right to vote to everyone without the account of sex.
  • W.E.B Dubois

    W.E.B Dubois
    He wrote a book undermining the stereotypes with empirical evidence and shaped his approach to segregation and its negative impact on black lives.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    These laws stated that state and local laws were introduced in the southern United States in the 19th and 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.