20th Century America: Democracy Background Reflection
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Updated: 3 Oct 2017
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Created byAlyna Liegl
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International Ladies' Garment Workers Union foundedNew York State passes a landmark Tenement House ActSocialist Party foundedW.E.B Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk publishedIndustral Workers of the World (IWW, or Wobblies) foundedNational Women's Trade Union League foundedUpton Sinclair's The Jungle publishedMeat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passedLa Follette's Magazine founded (later renamed The Progressive)NAACP founded"Uprising of the 20,000": female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditionsMilwaukee voters elect Socialist Emil Seidel as mayor, elect a Socialist Party majority to the city council, and elect Socialist Victor Berger to Congress.Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.Feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes The Man-Made World, one of several of her books that advocate for women’s economic and social freedom and redefine gender rolesWoodrow Wilson (Democrat) beats William Howard Taft (Republican), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive) and Eugene Debs (Socialist) for presidentSocialist Party has about 120,000 members and 1,039 Socialist Party members hold public office, mostly in local cities and townsBread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MassachusettsAlice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, later known as the National Woman's Party, to organize for women's suffrage and women's rightsCongress passes Clayton Antitrust Act to break up corporate monopoliesLudlow Massacre: John D. Rockefeller's private army kills thirteen women and children and seven men in a Colorado coal miners strikeFellowship of Reconciliation foundedJeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. House of RepresentativesUnited States enters World War IPalmer Raids begin: FBI arrests and deports radicals; seizes and shuts down radical publicationsFour million American workers (one of every five) walk out in a great strike wave, including national clothing, coal, and steel strikes, a general strike in Seattle, Washington, and a police strike in Boston, MassachusettsEugene Debs wins almost 1 million votes (6 percent) for president while in jail for opposing World Ware IAmerican Civil Liberties Union foundedNineteenth Amendment passed, legalizing women’s suffrageMargaret Sanger founds American Birth Control League (later called Planned Parenthood)The Immigration Act of 1924 limits the annual number of immigrants who can be admitted from any country to 2 percent of the number of people from that country already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3 percent cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded, the first African American labor union, foundedThe Great Depression begins in October
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