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Chinese Exclusion Act
A law passed to stop Chinese workers immigrating. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Forced railroads to be fair on prices -
Jane Addams-Hull House
A place for immigrated children to live and get educated -
Muckrackers
Journalists who exposed the corrupt institutions and leaders -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Takes control of competition of enterprises -
Plessy V. Ferguson
¨Separate but equal¨ fight -
McKinley Assassinated
Czolgosz gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology. He claimed to have killed McKinley because he thought there was a corrupt government. -
Teddy Roosevelt's- Square Deal
He wanted to create a fair and just society in which everyone had an equal chance to succeed -
Coal Miner Strike of 1902
A strike by the ¨United Mine Workers of America¨ they went on strike for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union -
Ida Tarbell- ¨The History of Standard Oil¨
Is about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller -
The Jungle Published
Portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in industrialized cities -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures meat products are processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
Roosevelt- Antiquities
The first law to establish that archaeological sites on public lands -
Food and Drug Act
Prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of wrongly branded, poisonous, deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Muller V Oregon
Women were provided lesser work hours than men. The question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's. -
Taft Wins
Republican nominee defeats 3 democratic nominees -
16th amendment
The congress can lay down and invest in taxes on incomes -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, Manhattan -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Re-established federal income tax and greatly lowered Tariff rates -
Department of Labor Established
Department for safety, wage, hour standards, etc -
17th Amendment
Gives voters the power to directly elect their senators -
Federal Reserve Act
Gave the 12 Federal Reserve banks the ability to print money to ensure economic stability -
Federal Trade Commission
An act which outlaws unfair methods of competition and practices that affect commerce -
Wilson Elected
The 33rd quadrennial presidential election
