TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| 1874 | Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded |
| 1889 | Jane Addams and Ellen Starr establish Hull House |
| 1890 | National American Woman Suffrage Association formed |
| 1895 | Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta address |
| 1900 | First commission form of government established in Galveston, Texas |
| 1902 | President Roosevelt settles coal strike |
| 1903 | National Women’s Trade Union League founded |
| 1906 | Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act passed |
| 1908 | Race riot in Springfield, Illinois |
| 1909 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded |
| 1910 | Gifford Pinchot is fired by President Taft |
| 1912 | Roosevelt forms Progressive Party |
| Children’s Bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labor established | |
| 1913 | Sixteenth Amendment instituting a graduated income tax ratified |
| Federal Reserve System created | |
| 1914 | Harrison Narcotics Control Act passed |
| Federal Trade Commission created | |
| Passage of Clayton Anti-Trust Act to benefit labor unions | |
| 1916 | Keating-Owen Act outlaws child labor |
| Workmen’s Compensation Act provides disability insurance | |
| 1919 | Eighteenth Amendment establishing prohibition ratified |
| 1920 | Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote ratified |