Progressive era

Progressive Era

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Supreme Court decision that upheld constitutionality of racial segregation. Doctrine known as separate but equal.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    An act passed preventing Chinese laborers from coming to the United States
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Law designed to regulate the railroad industry
  • Jane Addams-Hull House

    Jane Addams-Hull House

    It was opened to recently arrived European immigrants in 1911
  • Muckrackers

    Muckrackers

    Journalists who exposed institutions and leaders as corrupt
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    US legislation that outlawed monopolies and cartels to increase economic competitiveness
  • McKinley Assassinated

    McKinley Assassinated

    Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen
  • Coal Miner-Strike 1902

    Coal Miner-Strike 1902

    Miners wanted higher wages, shorter workdays and recognition of their union
  • Ida Tarbell-"The History of Standard Oil"

    Ida Tarbell-"The History of Standard Oil"

    An expose about the Standard Oil Company run by John D. Rockfeller
  • The Jungle Published

    The Jungle Published

    Novel wrote to portray the harsh conditions and lives of immigrants in Chicago
  • Teddy Roosevelt's-Square Deal

    Teddy Roosevelt's-Square Deal

    Domestic program which reflected Roosevelt's "three Cs": conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, consumer protection
  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    Federal Meat Inspection Act

    A law stating that it's a crime to misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food.
  • Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    Roosevelt-Antiquities Act

    An act for the preservation of American antiquities
  • Food and Drug Act

    Food and Drug Act

    A series of consumer protection laws. Lead to the creation of the FDA.
  • Muller v. Oregon

    Muller v. Oregon

    Law limited women to 10 hours of work. Curt Muller was fined $10 when he violated that. He appealed the conviction. Supreme Court upheld the law's constitutionality.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Allowed Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states based on population
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    Established popular election of US Senators by the people of the states
  • Taft Wins

    Taft Wins

    Taft defeated former president Theodore Roosevelt.
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Re-established a federal income tax in the US and lowered tariff rates
  • Department of Labor Established

    Department of Labor Established

    They are responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services and some economic statistics
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act

    It created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the US.
  • Federal Trade Commission

    Federal Trade Commission

    Prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce
  • Wilson Elected

    Wilson Elected

    Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes (republican candidate)