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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
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historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Federal law signed by Chester Arthur banning all Chinese immigrants.
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Made the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
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Founded by Jane Addams, main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people
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Journalists in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt while seeking reform. 1890s - 1920s
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first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
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Plessy arguing that the segregation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids states from denying "to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
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Killed in Buffalo, NY.
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strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania
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Government program, which reflected T. Roosevelt's three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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Exposing Rockefeller's illegal monopoly, ordered the company broken down into subsidairies
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Written to expose the horrors of the meat-packing industry.
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Civil-rights group founded in 1905 near Niagara Falls. Formed by
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Law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products.
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Pres. can declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated on land owned or controlled by the Federal Government to be national monuments
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce
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Beats William Jennings Bryan to win the election.
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question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's
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Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes
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Historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment
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Industrial fire in Manhattan, 146 dead 70 injured.
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Department of Labor is established.
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Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State
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re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates
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U.S. legislation creating the current Federal Reserve System
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part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime
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type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are in lines of holes protected from enemy fire.
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independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law
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American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
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Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany
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American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Date above is his death.
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Wilson wins over Hughes.
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telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause
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Delivered an address to a joint session of Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany
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Made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies.
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United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court struck down a federal law regulating child labor
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Permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States
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Statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
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Established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States
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Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 and was incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency
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Honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces
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Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration.
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International diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare
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Formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers
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Women can now vote.
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American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Date above is his death.
