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An act that gave congress power to regulate commerce with several states and foreign countries with things like railroads.
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The first high-level education facility for African Americans
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Banned all entry of Chinese people into the united states with the exception of some groups. Over fear of Chinese stealing western Americans jobs.
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A progressive that starts a Hull house in Chicago to help poor people and immigrants find help with jobs, food, and living stays.
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A federal law that discouraged and restricted interstate activities and competition in a market place.
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A supreme court case where a black man, Homer Plessy refused to sit in a black-only train car sparked conflict which ultimately leads to jim crow legislation and colored accommodations such as water fountains.
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local laws that enforced racial segregation -
President McKinley was shot with a 32 caliber revolver from a guy named Leon Czolgosz who despised how people look at McKinley as a great ruler.
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Coal miners went on strike for 163 days due to the harsh and dangerous conditions they worked in every day only gave them little money to survive on, leaving most bankrupt and poor.
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Founded the Tuskegee institute for African Americans to gain rights through improving education rather than demanding rights.
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a forceful demand for equal economic and educational opportunity as well as the vote for black men and women -
A depiction of the harsh and unfavorable working and living conditions for immigrants in large industrial areas. After the insights of the conditions of the industries made it to the public congress acted upon it and passed laws.
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Prohibited misbranded, altered, and harmful, food, drinks, and drugs.
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Prohibits misbranded and altered meat, with the area and conditions meats are slaughtered in are safe and sanitary.
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Republicans have won fours times in a row
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Congress has the power to create an income tax.
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National Association of the Advancement of colored people.
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"To enable and empower African-Americans and others in underserved communities to achieve their highest human potential and secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights". nul.org -
Tarbell's book showed that standard oil was in violation of the Sherman antitrust act
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A building with no regulations in New York had a fire start killing 145 women due to lack of safety precautions.
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The tariff was passed to promote trade and buying products from American products
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work-related safety, wage, standards, and age to work
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Senators are elected by the people rather than by the state
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defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor -
Protects consumers from buying a product and getting faulty, misused, or no products
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a silent film that talks about the life of an African American during the civil war. This film revolutionized the film industry -
A cruise ship carrying U.S civilians was sunk by a German U-Boat killing 1,200 American -
A telegram from Germany to Mexico stating that if Mexico helps fight the Americans, Mexico will gain back all the land that they lost.
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prohibition -
prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent -
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other( WWI) -
after the Lusitania sank Americans became more eager to enter the war -
Violates First Amendment, during wartime you can't criticize the Government or jail time and deportation will be in place
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a debate over child labor laws -
Laying out 14 ways not to get into another war
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a conference in Paris was called to establish the terms of peace after World War I. -
a day to honor veterans of WWI -
U.S senators rejected the treaty because of its requirements -
Wilson suffered a server stroke that left him incapacitated and ended his presidency -
A group of writers during the progressive era including Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell
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women's suffrage -
The Ku Klux Klan formed by southern and former confederate soldiers that refused reconstruction after losing the civil war -
a group formed after WWI to prevent wars from outbreaking again
