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Oregon Becomes first state to pass Initiative referndum laws
Oregen electorate overwhelmingly apprpved a legislative ballot measure which enables Oregon citizens to directly initiate amenments to the Oregon State congress. It also enables citizens to overturn statutes or laws passed by Oregon Legislature. -
muckraker Ida tarbell writes The History of the Standard Oil Company
Expose of the Standard Oil Company run by John D. Rockefeller, richest figure in American History. The book was credited with hastening the break up of the Standard Oil Company in 1911. Tarbell inspires other journalists to write about Trusts. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
US federal law that forbade manufacturing, transport, or sale of adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products foreign and interstate. -
Meat Inspection Act
US congress act that works to prevent adultarated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that they are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
One of the deadliest industrial disasters. Fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies Garment Workers who fought for better working conditions in sweatshops. -
16th Amendment is passed
Allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the US census. -
17th Amendment is passed.
Established direct election of US senators by popular vote. -
18th Amendment is passed
established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US declaring the production, transportation, and sale illegal. -
19th Amendment is passed
Prohibits any US citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.