Progressive Era Reform

  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    If any vacancy in the senate from any state and they are given the power to cast candidates to fill the vacant seat. And each state will receive 2 senators and each senator will only receive one vote per issue.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    To make it illegal to produce, sell or transport of illegal alcohol.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    Receive the power to put taxes and to collect taxes on incomes and can collect that tax whenever they want.
  • Pendleton Act

    Pendleton Act
    Created seats with in the government based on merit instead of political affiliation. It is a test for competitive seats in the government and it was enacted to reduce the amount of government officials that want to affiliate themselves with corrupt officials.
  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act
    That meats are slaughtered and processed under sanitary process and not to mis label meats to portray to be a different product. The Federal Meat Inspection Act (FIMA) is responsible for the meant to reduce the amount of adulterated or misbranded meat to be sold.a
  • Antiquities act

    Antiquities act
    The right to reserve or to create national parks or landmarks and statues and to reserve the land that houses natural resources and to protect national parks.
  • Pure food and drug act

     Pure food and drug act
    The reduction of sales, manufacture of poisonous or drugged foods to be sold. Also deleterious foods or drugs to be produced and trafficking therein.
  • Clayton Anti-Trust act

    Clayton Anti-Trust act
    To breakdown the large corporations into small businesses and to keep them small and not let them grow back to the original size. And to keep the small companies from buying eachother out and growing into another bug corporation again.
  • Keating Labor Act

     Keating Labor Act
    Prohibited the sale of goods that were produced by children under the age and the children can not work under the age of 18 because of the amount of deaths that occured in factories.
  • The 19th amendment

    The 19th amendment
    That women were given the full power and access to vote and prohibits any state and the entire country to not allow any women to not vote.