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Muckraking Early (1900s) | Progressive writers who exposed society's ills. |
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) | Book that exposed horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry. |
19th Amendment (1920) | gave women the franchise (suffrage) (the right to vote). |
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902) | TR took the side of the striking coal miners. Unprecedented. The federal government had always taken the side of business in labor disputes. |
Northern Securities Co. v. U.S. (1904) | TR used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up a railroad monopoly (trust). |
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896) | The Supreme Court ruled that segrefation (Jim Crow Laws) was constitutional. |
Great Migration (1910-1930) | The movement of southern blacks to the northern cities. |
Jim Crow and Disenfranchisement (1880s-1960s) | Laws created to separate (segregate) the races and prevent blacks from voting. |