Industrial Art Timeline

By rebparha
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    The Progressive Era

  • Theodore Roosevelt elected President

  • Meat Inspection Law passed

    All animals must be inspected before slaughtered and processed for human consumption.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act passed

    Makes sure that food industries keep their products up to certain safetly conditions.

  • William Taft elected President

  • Summer Day

    Summer Day
    by Frank Weston Benson

  • Creation of the Department of Labor

  • Sherman Antitrust Act passed

    Breaks up the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Company monopolies.

  • 16th Amendment ratified

    Creates an income tax.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected President

  • First use of assembly line by Henry Ford

  • Motive of Space and Form - A new Jersey Village (Montville)

    Motive of Space and Form - A new Jersey Village (Montville)
    by Oscar Bluemner

  • U. S. enters World War I

  • Treaty of Versailles ends Worlds War I

  • 19th Amendment ratified

    Grants women the right to vote.

  • The Great Depression begins

  • The Steel Mill

    The Steel Mill
    by Thomas Hart Benton