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W.E.B. Dubois
was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer, and editor. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South -
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee's program provided students with academic training. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
the Chinese Exclusion Act was an act that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act was created to regulate the railroad industry. Required railroad rates to be "reasonable and just" -
Jane Addams-Hull House
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. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Muckrakers
The Muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the progressive era. (1890s-1920s) -
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Rise of KKK (early 20th century)
it was a group of white supremacists that would attack colored people and would march around with thousands trying to grow this horrible clan. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
This was a case where the U.S supreme court decided to have racial segregation. "separate but equal" with people of color. -
McKinley Assassinated
McKinley was the 25th president, serving from 1897 up until his assassination. -
Coal Miner Strike-1902
The united mine workers of America went on strike for better wages, hours, and way of life. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
His policies reflected three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
It was a book written by Ida Tarbell basically exposing the oil companies. -
The Jungle Published
Published by Upton Sinclair, it paints the life of immigrants and the hard conditions they had to live in. -
Niagara Movement
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. -
Food and Drug Act
The Food and Drug Act was the first series of significant consumer protection. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
It was a law that made it illegal to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
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. -
Taft Wins
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. -
Muller v. Oregon
a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than accorded to men. -
16th Amendment
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
NAACP formed
Basically was made for the justice that colored people could have rights -
Urban League
it was one of the "big five" organizations. & was founded to provide African Americans social and economic justice. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
it was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
The 17th amendment
the direct election of U.S. senators by the voters of the states -
Department of Labor Established
help workers, job seekers, and retirees by creating standards for occupational safety, wages, hours, and benefits and by compiling economic statistics. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates. -
Federal Reserve Act
The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. -
Federal trade Commission
The FTC's mission is to protect consumers and promote competition. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. -
Trench Warfare
type of fighting (combat) where opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. -
Lusitania sunk
Germany used submarine warfare on Britain after they used a blockade on the Germans -
Booker T. Washington
was born into slavery and rose to become a leading African American intellectual of the 19 century -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
originally called The Clansman, is a silent drama film -
Wilson Elected
Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated former Governor of NY Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate -
18th amendment
this prohibited the consumption and sales of liquor -
Zimmerman Telegram
It proposed a military alliance between Germany & Mexico if the U.S. entered World War I against Germany. -
Wilson Asks for War
Germany violated its pledge on submarine warfare and that was the breaking point for Wilson -
Espionage Act
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 -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court made a federal law regulating child labor. -
Sedition Act
permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the U.S gov. -
Armistice Day
every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany. -
Wilson-Fourteen Points
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 -
Versailles Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting of the Allies after WWI ended, to make peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
Treaty of Versailles to Senate
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 Stroke
Wilson suffered a severe stroke that made him very sick until the end of his presidency -
19th amendment
WOMEN CAN VOTE WHOOP WHOOP -
League of Nations
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
