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Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Despite opposition from Republican progressives, Congress passed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, which kept high tariffs in place on most imports.

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Railway Labor Act

The Railway Labor Act established the right of collective bargaining for railroad workers.

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San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

A major earthquake—later estimated to be between 7.7 and 7.9 on the Richter scale—struck San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. The devastation grew as broken gas lines caused widespread fires and much of the city was destroyed. As many as 3,000 people were killed, and more than half of the survivors found themselves homeless.

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Sinking of the Titanic

The world’s largest passenger steamship, the RMS Titanic, sank in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage, killing 1,517 aboard.

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Start of Prohibition

Prohibition began when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.

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Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbidding the manufacture, sale, transportation, import, and export of “intoxicating liquors” was ratified, instituting Prohibition nationwide. The amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.

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Nineteenth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting suffrage to women.

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Emergency Quota Act

The Emergency Quota Act ended most immigration from outside the Americas and created an ethnic quota system for admitting immigrants to the United States.

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Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

In Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, the Supreme Court invalidated a minimum-wage law for women and children.

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National Origins Act of 1924

The National Origins Act refined the immigration quota system, created by the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, to favor northern and western European immigration over southern and eastern European immigration.