Progressive Era

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    A law passed to stop Chinese workers immigrating.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    Forced railroads to be fair on prices
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House
    A place for immigrated children to live and get educated
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers
    Journalists who exposed the corrupt institutions and leaders
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act
    Takes control of competition of enterprises
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    ¨Separate but equal¨ fight
  • McKinley Assassinated

    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

    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

    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¨

    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

    The Jungle Published
    Portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in industrialized cities
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    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

    Roosevelt- Antiquities
    The first law to establish that archaeological sites on public lands
  • Food and Drug Act

    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

    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

    Taft Wins
    Republican nominee defeats 3 democratic nominees
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment
    The congress can lay down and invest in taxes on incomes
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, Manhattan
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff
    Re-established federal income tax and greatly lowered Tariff rates
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established
    Department for safety, wage, hour standards, etc
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    Gives voters the power to directly elect their senators
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    Gave the 12 Federal Reserve banks the ability to print money to ensure economic stability
  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission
    An act which outlaws unfair methods of competition and practices that affect commerce
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected
    The 33rd quadrennial presidential election