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Took place because of the inferior condition and pay for coal workers.
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The act, also signed in by President Roosevelt in 1906, prohibited the selling of adulterated or misbranded livestock, etc.
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In 1906, president Roosevelt signed in the Food and Drug Act, prohibiting the interstate transport of food which had been "adulterated,"false coloring meant to cover up "damage or inferiority," etc.
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The act, set in place in 1911, kept money from sales of semi-arid public lands separate, only to be used for construction and maintenance of irrigation projects.
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The Children's Bureau, created in 1912, is a federal agency organized under the US's Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families.
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The Revenue Act of 1913 re-imposed the federal income tax after the placement of the Sixteenth Amendment, lowering basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%.
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The Sixteenth Amendment gives Congress the ability to levy an income tax without basing it on the United States Census.
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The Federal Reserve Act, set in 1913, created and established the Federal Reserve System and created the authority to issue the US dollar as legal currency.
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The Federal Trade Commission, set in place in 1914, is an independent agency, with the principal mission of promoting consumer protection and the prevention of things like monopolies.
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The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act, set in motion in 1916, was a statute enacted Congress that addressed child labor, prohibiting the sale of goods produced by factories that employed children.