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1893 |
Anti-Saloon League founded |
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1895 |
Booker T. Washington gives Atlanta Compromise speech
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1903 |
Women's Trade Union League founded |
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1905 |
Niagara Movement promotes African American rights |
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1906 |
San Francisco earthquake
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Meat Inspection Act |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
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1909 |
NAACP founded
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1911 |
Society of American Indians founded
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Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
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1914 |
Federal Trade Commission created |
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act |
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1917 - 1918 |
WWI Great Migration
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1919 |
Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) ratified |
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1920 |
Nineteenth Amendment (federal woman suffrage) ratified |
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1929 |
League of United Latin American Citizens founded
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An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.
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