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Progressive Era Timeline

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act was made due to the fear of the Chinese Immigrants "stealing all American jobs", and applied a 10-year ban on Immigration from China.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    The Interstate Commerce Act created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the Rail transport industry, making railroads the first industry to be regulated at the federal level.
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House
    This house is a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, and was co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. It was a huge complex and had many buildings as a part of it.
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers
    The Muckrackers were Reform journalists, writers, and photographers who claimed they were exposing corruption and wrongdoings.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    The Sherman Antitrust Act was the first federal act that outlawed monopolies in all industries.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    The Plessy V. Ferguson case kept the Jim Crow Laws constitutional and therefore made segregation still legal.
  • Teddy Roosevelt´s Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt´s Square Deal
    This was a campaign slogan for Theodore Roosevelt that consisted of: Conserving Natural resources, Consumer protection, and Control of Corporations. It was aimed at helping Middle-Class Citizens.
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated
    The 25th president of the USA, William McKinley, was shot and killed six months into his term at the Temple of Music, in Buffalo, New York.
  • Coal Miner Strike-1902

    Coal Miner Strike-1902
    The Coal miner strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published
    The Most Influential, famous, and eye-opening Muckraker book at the time.
  • Food & Drug Act

    Food & Drug Act
    The Food & Drug Act was made after the publishment of "The Jungle" that was to prevent and prohibit unsafe foods, medicines, and drugs from being made, shipped, or consumed.
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act
    This act made it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat products in America. Also makes sure the animals are slaughtered and processed in a clean environment.
  • Roosevelts Antiquities Act

    Roosevelts Antiquities Act
    First U.S. act to provide legal protection of cultural and natural resources.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without regard to any census or enumeration.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire in Greenwich and became the deadliest industrial accident in the city's history. The fire killed 146 people, who were mostly women and kids, and killed someone as young as 14!
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected
    He won the Election easily and became the first Southerner to do so since 1848.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    Allows voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to the amendment, senators were chosen by state legislatures.
  • Taft WIns

    Taft WIns
    32 Presidential Election was held, and Taft beat Theodore BARELY, and Theodore made a 3rd party opposition.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    Congress passed this act to provide stability to the economic system and to oversee monetary policy.