They were laws that enforced the strict separation (segregation) of the races.

It's an amount of money-usually one or two dollars- that a citizen had to pay before he or she could vote.

The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.

The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked...

Military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery, along with essentially new weapons such as su...

protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or sociallyThe annexation of Hawaii in 1898British East...

Period of Great African American artistic accomplishment that began in the 1920s in the Harlem neighborhood of NYC

It established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines...

The expansion of transport and communication during the 19th century created a need for a unified time-keeping system, and time zones were introduced.

The labor force that made industrialization possible was made up of millions of newly arrived immigrants and even larger numbers of migrants from rura...

1)United State's stock market crash of 1929. 2)Big drop in the world's economy. 3)Overproduction of goods from World War I. 4)Decrease in the need for...

a rise in bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, racketeering