CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1890 |
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives |
| 1890 |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| 1893 |
Anti-Saloon League started |
| 1895 |
U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Company |
| 1901 |
Commission form of city government created |
| 1903 |
Elkins Act |
| 1904 |
National Child Labor Committee organized |
| 1904 |
Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities |
| 1904 |
Supreme Court dissolved Northern Securities Company |
| 1906 |
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle |
| 1906 |
Meat Inspection Act |
| 1906 |
Pure Food and Drug Act |
| 1906 |
Hepburn Act |
| 1908 |
City-manager form of city government began |
| 1908 |
Muller v. Oregon |
| 1910 |
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy |
| 1910 |
Mann-Elkins Act |
| 1911 |
Triangle Shirtwaist fire |
| 1911 |
Anti-trust suit against U.S. Steel |
| 1911 |
F.W. Taylor’s The Principles of Scientific Management |
| 1911 |
Break-up of Standard Oil and American Tobacco |
| 1913 |
Sixteenth Amendment adopted |
| 1913 |
Seventeenth Amendment adopted |
| 1913 |
Underwood-Simmons Tariff |
| 1913 |
Federal Reserve Act |
| 1914 |
Federal Trade Commission Act |
| 1914 |
Clayton Antitrust Act |
| 1915 |
La Follette Seamen’s Act |
| 1916 |
Louis Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1916 |
Federal Farm Loan Act |
| 1916 |
Federal Highways Act |
| 1916 |
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act |
| 1916 |
Adamson Act |
