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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt had been the vice president for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency. -
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Rate Act was intended to give power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroad shipping rates. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was a piece of U.S. legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906, that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Muller V. Oregon
Oregon imposed a law that prohibited businesses from making female employees work shifts of longer than 10 hours. The owner of a laundry business, Curt Muller, was fined $10 when he violated the law. Despite the small penalty, Muller appealed the conviction. The state supreme court upheld the law's constitutionality. -
William Taft was elected
William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have served in both of these offices. -
NAACP Formed
The NAACP was formed in 1909 when progressive whites joined forces with W. E. B. Du Bois and other young blacks from the Niagara Movement, a group dedicated to full political and civil rights for African Americans. -
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act essentially changed American trade policy. Since some people called for higher tariff rates while others called for lower tariff rates, the debate within American trade policy sought to figure out how trade deals could be made to satisfy both importing and exporting countries. -
Mann-Elkins Act
The Mann-Elkins Act allowed the ICC to set the maximum freight rates that railroads could charge shippers. These measures imposed new and significant costs on railroads. With the nationalization of America's railroad industry in 1917, however, railroads began a new relationship with the federal government. -
16th Amendment ratified
Amendment Sixteen to the Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1913. It grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. -
Woodrow Wilson elected president
As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. Staunton, Virginia, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S. -
17th Amendment ratified
Passed by Congress on May 13, 1912, and ratified on April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. Prior to its passage, senators were chosen by state legislatures. -
Underwood Tariff Act was passed
Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act, U.S. legislation enacted in October 1913 that lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent and reintroduced a federal income tax. -
Federal Reserve Act
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is the legislation that created the Federal Reserve System in the United States. The law was passed after years of economic turmoil in the country. Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of antitrust and consumer protection laws affecting virtually every area of commerce, with some exceptions concerning banks, insurance companies, non-profits, transportation and communications common carriers, air carriers, and some other entities. -
18th Amendment ratified
the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. -
19th Amendment ratified
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote