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Progressive Era

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Law that was passed to prevent Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S.
  • Interstate commerce act

    Interstate commerce act

    A law that was used to regulate the industry of railroads.
  • Jane Addams- Hull house

    Jane Addams- Hull house

    It provided education and social opportunities for the working class.
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    Reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era who published misdeeds and exposed leaders as corrupt
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    The law for racial segregation public facilities.
  • Antitrust act

    Antitrust act

    The concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition