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Chinese Exclusion Act
Immigration law passed in 1822 that prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the united states, It was the first immigration law of that excluded an entire ethnicity group, It also excluded chines nationals from eligibility for united states citizen ship -
Jane Addams-hull House
One of the first settlements in North America. It was founded in Chicago in 1889 when Jane Addams and Ellen gates Starr rented an abandoned residence. -
Interstate Commerce Act
United states Federal law that was designed to regulate the rail road industry -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Prohibits monopolies or unreasonable combination of companies to restrict or in any way control interstate commerce. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Was a land mark in 1896 U.S. supreme court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the desperate but equal. -
McKinley Assassinated
He was shot on the grounds of the Pan American Exposition at the temple of music in buffalo new York anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen. -
coal miner strike- 1902
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. -
Muckrakers
were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. -
Ida Tarbell-"The History of Standard Oil"
The History of the Standard Oil Company is credited with 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. -
Teddy Roosevelts Square deal
The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. -
The Jungle Published
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Roosevelt antiquities act
The Antiquities Act was 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. President -
Federal Meat inspection Act
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 processioned under stickler regulated sanitary conditions -
Food and Drug act
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Muller v. Oregon
Upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female workers to ten hours, it was one of the most important US supreme court cases of the progressive Era. -
Taft Wins
With Roosevelt's support, Taft won the presidential nomination of the 1908 Republican National Convention on the first ballot. Having lost the 1904 election badly, the Democratic Party re-nominated Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley. -
Triangle shirtwaist fire
on march 25 1911 the triangle shirtwaist company factory in new York city burned down killing 145 workers. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories making them safer. -
Underwood Simmons Tariff
re-established a federal income tax in the United States and substantially lowered tariff rates.The Revenue Act of 1913 lowered average tariff rates from 40 percent to 26 percent. -
16th amendment
Allows the federal government to collect income tax from all Americans. Other taxes, such as taxes on houses or other property are considered “direct” taxes by the Constitution and would have to be divided back among the states. -
Department of Labor Established
A united states executive department formed in 1913 to help workers, job seekers and retirees by creating standards for occupational safety wages, hours and benefits by complying economic statistics -
17th amendment
the 17th Amendment gives voters the power to directly elect their senators. It also states that the U.S. Senate includes two senators from each state, and that each senator has one vote in the Senate. Senators are elected for six-year terms. -
Federal reserve act
Congress developed the federal reserve act to establish economic stability in the united states by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy. -
Federal Trade Commission
a federal agency, established in 1914, that administers antitrust and consumer protection legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the marketplace. -
Wilson Elected
Wilson Became a prominent of 1912 presidential contender immediately after his election as governor of new Jersey in 1910, and his clashes with state party bosses enhanced his reputation with the rising progressive movement.
