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The Hepburn Act
granted federal regulators in the ICC the power to legally order railroads to set reasonable rates and empowered President Theodore Roosevelt to monitor railroad pricing. -
The Federal Meat Inspection
an American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration -
Seventeenth Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. -
Sixteenth Amendment
grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. -
Federal Reserve Act
separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -
Federal Trade Commission Act
prevents unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Intended to strengthen earlier antitrust legislation, the act prohibits anti-competitive mergers, predatory and discriminatory pricing, and other forms of unethical corporate behavior. -
The Eighteenth Amendment
prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. -
Nineteenth Amendment
women are granted the right too vote