Progressive era timeline

By gbg0627
  • Chinese exclusion act

    First law to seriously restrict immigration, especially that of the Chinese.
  • Interstate commerce act

    Made to regulate commerce between nations and railroad tax.
  • Sherman anti trust act

    prohibited restriction of interstate commerce as well as allowing their to be competition in the market place.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    a legal case for the separate but equal clause, segregating African Americans from white in such a way that they where separate yet equal (they where still not given equal treatment despite this)
  • Mckinly assassinated

    President McKinly is shot dead by Leon Czolgosz
  • Cole miner strike of 1902

    Among the first labor disputes