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Chinese Exclusion Act
A law that was passed to prohibiting all immigration Chinese labor -
Interstate Commerce Act
The commission had the power to regulated railroads and give authority over the telegraph and the telephone -
Jane Addams-Hull House
Hull house became a model for settlement houses around the country. -
Muckrakers
A journalists that wrote about injustices and exposed the filth of society -
Sherman Antitrust Act
An act that outlawed monopolistic business practice and it was based on constitutional power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A law that was enforce and was required that railway had to be separated by backs and whites. -
McKinley Assassinated
Happened in Buffalo NY -
Coal Miner Strike of 1902
For better wages and better working conditions. -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
Exposed Rockefeller and wrote the greatest journalism investigative stories of all time -
Muller v. Oregon
A law was enacted that limited women that maid women work for 10 hrs and they worked in factories and laundries. -
The Jungle Published
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Food and Drug Act
Protects the public from adulteration of food and products. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A Law that is illegal to adulterate and meat product are slaughter and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
Turned into a law and establishing the first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the U.S -
Taft Wins
Taft beat 3 democratic nominees. -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks. -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
A program of progressive reforms. -
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration -
Federal Reserve Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of re discounting commercial paper,. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Revenue Act of 1913 lowered average tariff rates from 40 percent to 26 percent. -
Department of Labor Established
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17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Federal trade Commission
A federal agency, established in 1914, that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The responsibility to monitor deceptive or misleading advertising and unfair business. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson defeated the supreme court justice and former Governor of New York Charles Evans Hughes.
