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Progressive Era

By alw0718
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    a law passed prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    gives congress permission to regulate commerce with foreign nations among the states
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    a law that prescribes the rule of free competition among the engaged commerce
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Supreme court decision that racial segregation laws didn't violate the constitution as long as the quality of everything was the same
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    was shot at a festival in NY that he was warned not to go to
  • Coal Miner Strike

    Coal Miner Strike

    working conditions caused a strike for a coal minners
  • Teddy Roosevelt’s-Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt’s-Square Deal

    Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three Cs" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    a novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest on Federal lands.
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
  • Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil

    Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil

    hastening the breakup of Standard Oil, which came about in 1911, when the Supreme Court of the United States found the company to be violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist fire

    women's factory burns down, they get trapped because there were no rules or regulations
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    Taft carried 23% of the national vote and won two states, Vermont and Utah. He was the first Republican to lose the Northern states.
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848.
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    U.S. federal government, responsible for occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    the central banking system of the United States.
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    provides for the election of senators
  • Federal trade Commission

    Federal trade Commission

    mission is the enforcement of civil U.S. antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.
  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    Federal Trade Commission Act

    outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce
  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    Clayton Antitrust Act

    prevented unfair methods of competition
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    women gain voting rights
  • Muckrakers

    Muckrakers

    group of American writers who exposed corrupt leaders