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Laws that enforced segregation
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First university for African Americans
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Founded the Tuskegee Institute, believed segregation was okay as long as they as long as whites allowed African Americans to economic progress, education, and justice.
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Banned all Chinese laborers from coming to the US
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Act that gave congress the right to regulate railroads and commerce
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A place to house and help recent European immigrants. Co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
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Journalists who were exposing corruption
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First federal law that banned monopolies
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Case that truly established "separate but equal"
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President McKinley, who later died, was shot twice in the stomach by Leon Czolgosz.
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Strike of miners who wanted higher wages and shorter work days
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A book written by Ida Tarbell about the Standard Oil Company that furthered the closing of the company due to their violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
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A book written by Upton Sinclair showing the terrible conditions that immigrants live in industrial cities. The government then acts on this.
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Organization of African American intellectuals, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, that called for full rights for African Americans
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A sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor
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Act that protects natural and cultural resources
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Ensures that meat will inspected and made under sanitary conditions. Government has the right to shut you down if you don't meet health requirements.
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Banned all mislabeled food and drug commerce
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Case that decided if women should be able to negotiate work hours with her employer. The decision was to limit a woman's work-hours to 10 a day.
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Republicans won their 4th straight presidential victory
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Civil rights group whose mission is to advance justice for African-Americans
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Civil rights organization that advocates for social and economic justice for African-Americans
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In Manhattan, New York City there was a very deadly industrial fire because there was no regulations. Led to safer working conditions.
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President Theodore Roosevelt's act that had 3 goals: conserve natural resources, regulate corporations, and protect consumers
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Congress creates income tax
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Department responsible for work regulations and the betterment of the employees
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Gave the people the right to vote for their senators. If a senate seat isn't filled, the governor picks a new senator.
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Promoted higher tariff rates, encouraged American-made products
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An act with the goal to regulate banking better
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Warfare that is set up in a trench that is well protected by minimal enemy fire. However, this was a breeding ground for diseases and rats.
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Agency with the mission of enforcing civil U.S. antitrust law and promoting consumer protection.
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Act that protects consumers by stopping unfair practices in the marketplace
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Act that points out unethical business practices
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Movie, directed by D. W. Griffith, that painted the KKK as heroes
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Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan after Birth of a Nation came out
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Germany torpedoed the Lusitania, which carried some Americans on it. This led to the U.S. entering World War 1.
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First democratic president after 4 republican presidents
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Secret telegram from the German Foreign Office that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
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President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
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Act that bans copying or printing of information to enemies that interferes with the US
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Case that did away with the regulation of child labor
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Extended Espionage Act to cover speech and the expression of opinion that painted the government and war efforts as a negative thing
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The Allied powers signed a ceasefire with Germany ending World War 1
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The sale of liquor was illegal, but it didn't make drinking alcohol illegal
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International meeting held at Versailles with the purpose of establishing peace between the Allies and the Central Powers after World War 1
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President Woodrow Wilson didn't take the senators' protest of the Treaty of Versailles into consideration which led to Senators' rejection
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President Woodrow Wilson had a stroke that left him weak until the end of his presidency
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International group established after World War I with the mission to solve disputes between countries before they start a war
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Women get the right to vote
