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was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor. -
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South -
Tuskegee's program provided students with academic training. -
the Chinese Exclusion Act was an act that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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The Interstate Commerce Act was created to regulate the railroad industry. Required railroad rates to be "reasonable and just"
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The goal was for educated women to share all kinds of knowledge, from basic skills to arts and literature with poorer people in the neighborhood.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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The Muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the progressive era. (1890s-1920s)
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it was a group of white supremacists that would attack colored people and would march around with thousands trying to grow this horrible clan.
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This was a case where the U.S supreme court decided to have racial segregation. "separate but equal" with people of color.
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McKinley was the 25th president, serving from 1897 up until his assassination.
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The united mine workers of America went on strike for better wages, hours, and way of life.
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His policies reflected three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
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It was a book written by Ida Tarbell basically exposing the oil companies.
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Published by Upton Sinclair, it paints the life of immigrants and the hard conditions they had to live in.
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it was a group of black intellectuals and was led by W.E.B. Du Bois and touched on full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. -
The Food and Drug Act was the first series of significant consumer protection.
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It was a law that made it illegal to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food.
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The Antiquities Act was the first law (U.S) to provide legal protection of cultural/natural resources of historic or scientific interest on federal lands.
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Taft won the popular vote and carried most states outside of the Solid South. Taft's triumph gave Republicans their fourth straight presidential election victory.
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a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than accorded to men.
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allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
Basically was made for the justice that colored people could have rights -
it was one of the "big five" organizations. & was founded to provide African Americans social and economic justice. -
it was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
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the direct election of U.S. senators by the voters of the states -
help workers, job seekers, and retirees by creating standards for occupational safety, wages, hours, and benefits and by compiling economic statistics.
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established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
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The FTC's mission is to protect consumers and promote competition. -
outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce. -
defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
type of fighting (combat) where opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
Germany used submarine warfare on Britain after they used a blockade on the Germans -
was born into slavery and rose to become a leading African American intellectual of the 19 century -
originally called The Clansman, is a silent drama film -
Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated former Governor of NY Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate
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this prohibited the consumption and sales of liquor -
It proposed a military alliance between Germany & Mexico if the U.S. entered World War I against Germany. -
Germany violated its pledge on submarine warfare and that was the breaking point for Wilson -
prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information related to the national defense. ONLY with reason to believe that the information may be used to hurt the United States -
U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court made a federal law regulating child labor. -
permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the U.S gov. -
every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany. -
It was all of Wilsons ideas on how to prevent a war like WWI from happening again and trying to make war a last option -
The Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting of the Allies after WWI ended, to make peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
the president of the U.S. personally delivered a treaty to the Senate. (and it had been a longgggg time since that has happened) -
Wilson suffered a severe stroke that made him very sick until the end of his presidency -
WOMEN CAN VOTE WHOOP WHOOP -
it was a group created after the war to solve problems between countries so the war wouldn't happen again. but the senate didn't want to bow down to the League Of Nations
