Progressive Era

By Patrick_sham

  • Sedition Act

    It was the first papers explaining what would happen if you commited treason

  • Tuskegee Institute

    First black private college

  • W.E.B. Dubois

    Famous civil right activist

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Laws that made it hard for blacks to be able to have a good life in the south

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Stopped the immigration of all Chinese labourers.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    It stopped companies from having an monopoly on the railroads

  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    First place of immigration processing for Europeans

  • Booker T. Washington

    Famous african american author, and presidential advisor

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Stopped big companies from having an monopoly on commerce

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    It created the separate but equal law in the country.

  • Rise of KKK (early 20th century)

    The KKK is an organization of racists against mostly blacks but really anyone who isnt white

  • McKinley Assassinated

    He was shot by a crazy man who thought he deserved a job in the government but did not

  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Coal miners went on strike due to not being paid well

  • Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal

    Created the FDA, The meat inspection, Sanitation, and protection of natural landmarks

  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”

    It was a book that showed how Rockefeller created the standard for the oil companies

  • Niagara Movement

    A movement of black intellectuals during the civil rights era

  • The Jungle Published

    It showed how hard immigrant workers had it in Chicago

  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Preserved out national forest and other natural landmarks

  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Would be the standard for Meat packing plants and would mean that they would be inspected every time meat came through

  • Food and Drug Act

    It created the standard that food companies would have to follow

  • Taft Wins

    Henry Taft becomes president

  • Muller v. Oregon

    Decided that woman's hours should be lesser to their male counterparts

  • 16th Amendment

    Said that there was a federal tax that could be collected on incomes

  • NAACP formed

    An organization that makes sure black people got proper justice

  • Urban League

    A housing group formed during the civil rights era

  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Deadliest industrial fire in U.S. history

  • 17th Amendment

    Said that each state will have 2 senators

  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Re established the federal income tax

  • Department of Labor Established

    Makes sure that workers are treated fairly and paid appropriately

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Made sure that all our money was protected and was accredited

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    It was just another way to protect the consumer and make sure there was still competition

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Defined what an unethical business practice was and what you could do and couldn't

  • Trench Warfare

    Was a form of fighting in WWI when you dug a trench and fought from it

  • Federal trade Commission

    It was to protect the consumers and create competition for producers

  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    It is a silent film showing the formation of the KKK

  • Lusitania sunk

    A british passenger liner that was sunk killing 123 Americans and pushing us towards WWI

  • Wilson Elected

    Woodrow Wilson becomes president

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Telegram sent from Germany intended for Mexico that was intercepted by the Brits saying that Mexico should invade the U.S., causing us to join WWI

  • Wilson Asks for War

    This is when Wilson asked congress to declare war on Germany

  • Espionage Act

    It was set to punish those who spied on the military and government

  • Hammer v. Dagenhart

    It was the start of child labor laws in factories

  • Wilson-Fourteen Points

    The 14 things we need to do as a country and world to insure that war never happens again

  • Armistice Day

    The day the fighting stopped on the front

  • Wilson Stroke

    Wilson suffers a stroke and is not able to be president for the rest of his time in office, it is rumored that his wife signed some of the documents for him

  • 18th amendment

    Started prohibition

  • Treaty of Versailles to Senate

    This was when Wilson took the treaty to congress in America for them to sign it which they did not

  • Muckrakers

    Was a type of journalism that exposed the corruption in American industry

  • League of Nations

    An international organization that focused on making sure war never happened again

  • Versailles Peace Conference

    Where the official treaty was signed to end the war and to draw lines as to who owned what. (foreshadowing for WWII)

  • 19th amendment

    Gave the women the right to vote