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Sedition Act
This act permits deportation, fines, or imprisonment of anyone possibly a threat or publishing false or scandalous writing against the government of the U.S. -
Booker T. Washington
He was an American educator, author, and adviser to several U.S presidents as well as a dominant leader in the African American community. -
W.E.B Dubois
An American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, etc; He was the most important black protestor in the first half of the 20th century. -
Jim Crow laws
A series of statutes state and local that legalized racial segregation -
Muckrackers
A group of reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive era who liked to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions. -
Tuskegee Institute
A private historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama founded by Booker T. Washington -
Chinese Exclusion Act
A law established by Chester A. Arthur formally known as the Immigration Act of 1882 restricting immigration in the United States. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A federal law designed to regulate railroad rates to be reasonable and allow Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations and their monopolistic practices without empowering the government to provide specific rates. -
Jane Addams- Hull House
The first social settlement house in Chicago,Illinois co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was the first federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision by the U.S Supreme court under the separate but equal law of racial segregation. This event came from an incident in 1892 where a man named Homer Plessey refused to sit in a car for black people. -
Mckinley Assassination
Mckinley was the third president to be assassinated after he was shot twice at point-blank range at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York by 28 yr old Leo Czolgosz. -
Teddy Roosevelt's - Square Deal
A domestic legislative program that reflected his three major goals of conservation of natural resources, consumer protection, and control of corporations. -
Cole Miner Strike - 1902
A strike led by United Mine Workers of America in eastern Pennsylvania. Workers struck for higher wages and shorter workdays. -
Ida Tarbell- "The History of Standard Oil"
The History of Standard Oil was a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell to expose the Standard Oil Company run at the time by John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history. -
Niagara Movement
An organization of black intellectuals being led by W.E.B Du Bois who wanted political, civil, and social rights for African Americans -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
First U.S law to provide general protection over any general kind of cultural or natural resource and established the first national historic preservation policy of the U.S -
Food & Drug Act
An act passed by Congress on June 30th and signed by Theodore Roosevelt to prohibit interstate commerce in adulterated food, drinks, or drugs. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
An American law that prohibits the sale of adulterated or misbranded meat or meat products being sold as food and ensures that they are slaughtered and processed under strict regulated sanitary conditions. -
The Jungle Published
A novel was written by Upton Sinclair that portrays the harsh conditions and lives that immigrants in Chicago and similar U.S industrialized cities lived. -
Muller vs. Oregon
A decision where women were provided fewer work hours than men in which court found not in violation of the right to contract in the fourteenth amendment. -
Taft Wins
Secretary of War and Republican party nominee Wiliam Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election. -
16th Amendment
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population -
NACCP formed
NACCP stands for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NACCP is a civil rights organization in order to advance justice for African Americans. -
Urban League
Founded to provide assistance to further the dual tenets of economic and social justice of African Americans -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York caught fire killing 146 workers. This day is known as the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city as well as one of the deadliest in U.S history. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Also known as the Revenue Act of 1913 lowered average tariff rates and re-established a federal income tax in the U.S. -
Department of Labor Established
A cabinet-level Department of the federal government established by President William Howard Taft that's responsible for occupational safety and health, wage/hour standards, unemployment benefits, etc; -
Wilson Elected
Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the progressive movement became the 28th president of the United States winning against Theodore Roosevelt. -
17th Amendment
Allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S Senators -
Federal Reserve Act
Legislation in the U.S that created the Federal Reserve System which is the central banking system of the United States. -
Federal Trade Commission
Established by the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 -
Federal Trade Commission Act
A federal law that outlaws unfair methods of competition, acts, or practices that affect commerce. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
An Act that prohibits anticompetitive practices, predatory, and discriminatory pricing -
Trench Warfare
A type of combat where trenches in the ground are used by opposing sides to attack, counterattack, and defend in war. -
The Birth of a Nation
A movie based on The Clansman which then describes and shows the impact on family life after the civil war. -
Rise of the KKK (20th Century)
Originally founded in 1866 by ex-confederate soldiers and other southerners opposed to reconstruction after the civil war. In 1915, 50 yrs later after Birth of a Nation the Klan was revived by William Joseph Simmons. -
Lusitania sunk
The UK registered steamship that was torpedoed by German Navy U-boat during the first world war killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans. -
Zimmermann Telegram
Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico to help them recover lost territory if the U.S went into World War 1 against Germany. -
Wilson Asks for War
President Woodrow Wilson called for a declaration of war against Germany -
Espionage Act
A federal law enacted to prevent obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information that could be used to cause injury to the U.S or for the advantage of any foreign nation. -
Hammer vs. Dagenhart
A Supreme Court case in which they made a decision to deem a federal law regulating child labor unconstitutional -
Wilson- fourteen points
A statement that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end world war 1 -
Armistice Day
Marks the armistice signed between allies of world war 1 and Germany at Compiegne, France. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
Senate rejected the treaty that formally ended world war 1 due to President Wilson failing to take the senator's objections to the agreement into consideration. -
Wilson stroke
Wilson intended to seek a third term but unexpectedly suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. -
18th Amendment
Established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
Versailles Peace Conference
A conference was called at Versailles just outside of Paris to establish peace terms after world war 1. -
League of Nations
The first worldwide international organization based in Switzerland was created after ww1 to provide a forum for resolving international disputes -
19th Amendment
This was a right known as women's suffrage and granted American women the right to vote.