U.S. History

  • grandfather clause

    grandfather clause

    The Grandfather Clause was a statute enacted by many American southern states in the wake of Reconstruction
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Founded

    Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Founded

    Inspired by religious morals and wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke, etc. due to drinking
  • Jim Crow Laws are Created

    Jim Crow Laws are Created

    Jim Crow laws, named for the minstrel show character, were passed in the late 1800s by the legislatures of the Southern states that discriminated against African Americans in the south.
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed

    National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed

  • Anti-Saloon League Formed

    Anti-Saloon League Formed

    Make cities safer
    Workers would be more efficient
    Help to americanize immigrants
    Took over prohibition movement in early 1900
    Supported by industrialists: because it makes workers
  • Poesy v. Ferguson

    Poesy v. Ferguson

    Supreme court ruled that separating the races in public accommodations did not violate the 14th amendment
  • New York Tenement House Law

    New York Tenement House Law

    Established model housing code for safety and sanitation.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulated production of sale of food and medicines
  • The Jungle

    The Jungle

    The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair.
  • Meat inspection Act

    Meat inspection Act

    meat sources inspected before and after death
    Sanitary standards at slaughterhouses and processing plants
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

    Burns down because the workers are locked in the factory.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Each states legislature got to choose its own senator which put more power in hands of bosses.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Officially makes America an "alcohol-free" country
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

    The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

    The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.