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Supreme Court ruled women were citizens but denied them the right to vote
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Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act banning rich railroad owners from fixing all the prices, elminating competition
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Sherman Antitrust Act was created preventing monoplies making it illegal to establish trusts interferring with free trade
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Florence Kelley helped pass the Illinois Factory Act by prohibiting child labor and lowering work hours for women
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William McKinley is elected president
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McKinley is reelected president
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McKinley is assinated making Roosevelt the new president
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National child labor committee sent investigators to examine the working conditions for the children
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Meat Inspection Act created a strict cleanliness requirement and an inspection program
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William Taft is elected president
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De Bois helped fund the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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The Mexican Revolution began
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Fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killing 146 workers, most being young women
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Wilson was elected president
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The Seventeenth amendment is created allowing direct election of senators
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World war I begins
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Clayton Antitrust Act is created protecting right of labor unions and farm organizations
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Wilson is reelected
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The Eighteenth amendment established prohibiting alcohol
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The Ninteenth amendment created giving women the right to vote
