1877 – Munn v. Illinois 1878 – Bland-Allison Act 1886 – Wabash v. Illinois 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act 1889 – Hull House founded by Jane Addams 1890 – Sherman Antitrust Act • Sherman Silver Purchase Act • McKinley Tariff 1892 – Homestead Steel Strike • Populist Party nominates James B. Weaver for presidency • Grover Cleveland elected 24th president 1893 – Panic of 1893 • Anti-Saloon League founded 1894 – Eugene V. Debs leads Pullman strike • Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1895 – Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. 1896 – William McKinley elected 25th president • Plessy v. Ferguson 1897 – Dingley Tariff 1898 – Battleship Maine sunk • Spanish-American War • Teller Amendment • Treaty of Paris
1899 – Boxer Rebellion 1900 – Open Door Policy announced 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th president • Platt Amendment • Hay-Paunceforte Treaty • Insular Cases 1902 – National Reclamation Act 1903 – Panama Revolt 1904 – Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1905 – Russo-Japanese War ended by Treaty of Portsmouth • Lochner v. New York 1906 – Pure Food and Drug Law • Meat Inspection Act • Hepburn Act 1907 – Gentleman’s Agreement 1908 – William Howard Taft elected 27th president • Muller v. Oregon • Danbury Hatters case 1910 – Mann Act • Mann-Elkins Act 1912 – Woodrow Wilson elected 28th president • Lodge Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1913 – Underwood Tariff
• Federal Reserve Act • Sixteenth Amendment • Seventeenth Amendment 1914 – Federal Trade Commission established • Clayton Antitrust Act • Panama Canal opened 1916 – Keating-Owen Child Labor Act 1919 – Hammer v. Dagenhart 1919 – Eighteenth Amendment 1920 – Nineteenth Amendment