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First law to seriously restrict immigration, especially that of the Chinese.
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Made to regulate commerce between nations and railroad tax.
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prohibited restriction of interstate commerce as well as allowing their to be competition in the market place.
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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)
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President McKinly is shot dead by Leon Czolgosz
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Among the first labor disputes