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Chinese Exclusion Act
A law that was passed to prohibiting all immigration Chinese labor -
interstate commerce act
the commission had the power to regulated railroads and give authority over the telegraph and the telephone -
Jane Addams-Hull House
hull house became a model for settlement houses around the country -
Muckrackers
A journalists that wrote about injustices and exposed the filth of society -
Sherman Antitrust Act
was a act that outlawed monopolistic business practice. And it was based on constitutional power of congress to regulate interstate commerce -
Plessy v. Ferguson
A law was enforce and was required that railway had to be separated by backs and whites -
McKinley Assassinated
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Coal Miner Strike-1902
for better wages and better working conditions -
Ida Tarbell-“The History of Standard Oil”
she exposed Rockefeller and wrote the greatest journalism investigative stories of all time -
The Jungle Published
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Food and Drug Act
protect the public from adulteration of food and products. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act
A Law that is illegal to adulterate and meat product are slaughter and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
Roosevelt-Antiquities Act
Turned into a law and establishing the first general legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the u.s. -
Muller v. Oregon
A law was enacted that limited women that maid women work for 10 hrs. and they worked in factories and laundries. -
Taft Wins
Taft beat 3X Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan -
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
146 people died as a result of the fire -
Teddy Roosevelt’s- Square Deal
A program of progressive reforms -
Federal Reserve Act
it is the U.S. Legislation that created the current federal Reserve system. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
federal income tax following the rafification of the 16th amendment and basic tariff rates from 40% to 25% well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 -
16th Amendment
the u.s. constitution was ratified in 1913 and allows congress to levy a tax on income from any source without apportioning it among the states and without regard to the census. -
Department of Labor Established
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17th Amendment
The senate compose 2 senators from each state voted by the people. -
Federal trade Commission
nations consumer protection agency and one of the government agencies responsible for keeping competition among businesses strong. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The responsibility to monitor deceptive or misleading advertising and unfair business -
Wilson Elected
he defeated supreme court justice and former Governor of new York Charles Evans Hughes.
