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Chinese Exclusion Act
An immigration law passed in 1882 that prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States and was the first immigration law that excluded an entire ethnic group. It also excluded Chinese nationals from eligibility for United States citizenship. -
Interstate Commerce Act
A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices requiring that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
Jane Addams Hull house
A settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened to recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings -
Sherman Antitrust Act
A United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises, which was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison also named for Sen. John Sherman, its principal author. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – and became the doctrine known as "separate but equal". -
McKinley Assassination
William McKinley Jr. was the 25th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term -
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Coal Minor Strike
a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays, and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities -
Muckrackers
Reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt and typically had large audiences in popular magazines -
Ida Tarbell - The History of Standard Oil
an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history -
The Jungle (Published)
Novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair who wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities -
Roosevelt Square Deal
President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection; three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
An American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
Roosevelt Antiquities Act
A response to concerns over theft from and destruction of archaeological sites and was designed to provide an expeditious means to protect federal lands and resources -
Food And Drug Act
The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration -
Muller v. Oregon
A landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. Where the posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's -
Taft Wins
With Roosevelt's support, Taft won the presidential nomination of the 1908 Republican National Convention on the first ballot -
16th Amendment
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population and was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City -
Underwood Simmons Tariff
The Revenue Act of 1913, also known as the Underwood Tariff or the Underwood-Simmons Act, re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates -
17th Amendment
Established the popular election of United States senators by the people of the states and supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures -
Federal Reserve Act
Passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States -
Federal Trade Commissions Act
established the Federal Trade Commission. The Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1914, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce -
Federal Trade Commission
An independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection -
Wilson Elected
33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate
