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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1881

  • President James Garfield assassinated
1883

  • Pendleton Act establishes the Civil Service Commission
1890

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • People’s Party created in Kansas
1893

  • Economic depression begins
1894

  • Coxey’s Army marches on Washington, D.C.
1895

  • John Pierpont Morgan arranges gold purchases to rescue U.S. Treasury
1896

  • William McKinley wins presidency

  • Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine
1898

  • Williams v. Mississippi allows poll taxes and literacy tests for voters
1899

  • National Consumers’ League founded
1901

  • Eugene Debs founds the Socialist Party of America

  • McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt assumes presidency
1902

  • Newlands Reclamation Act
1903

  • Elkins Act
1904

  • Robert Hunter publishes Poverty
1905

  • Industrial Workers of the World founded

  • Niagara Principles articulated
1906

  • Hepburn Act
1908

  • Muller v. Oregon limits women’s work hours
1909

  • NAACP created
1912

  • Four-way election gives presidency to Woodrow Wilson
1913

  • Sixteenth Amendment

  • Seventeenth Amendment

  • Federal Reserve Act
1914

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: In the timeline above, identify key actions taken by Congress and the Progressive Era presidents, and those enacted by the Supreme Court. What role did each branch of government play in the Progressive Era, and how did those roles change over time?