History of the United States

Growing cash crops like tobacco and cotton overworked the land.

This 1876 case allowed the government (and in this case, the state of Illinois) to regulate some private businesses, such as railroads, if they were business that served the public good; the case allowed the state to set the rates these businesses could charge.

William Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican President and was nominated for a second term by his party in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt who started off as a Republican left and started a new party. This cost Taft the re-election and put a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson in as President.

Worked for a national income tax. -Apex

by showing that the meat packing industry did not have high standards of safety and cleanliness

African American members

Andrew Carnegie