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Pure Food and Drug Act
The banning of the sale, transportation and manufacturing of adulterated (render of something poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one.) or misbranded (with misleading labels) or poisonous or harmful foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for slowing of the traffic of these substances, and for other purposes. This is the reason of the “FDA.” -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy (impose) an income tax without apportioning (divide and allocate) it among the states or basing it on the United States Census (a procedure of a fixed plan acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population). -
17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment allowed the people of the United States of America to vote for their own two senators, of each state. The popular vote of the state chose the senators. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Also known as Wick’s Bill. Children under the age of 14 couldn’t work in factories, if the factories hired them they couldn’t distribute the goods that they got. Mines could hire under the age of 16. Children couldn’t work more than 8 hours daily, no working after 7:00 pm or before 6:00 am. -
18th Amendment
This amendment effectively established the banning of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the making of, moving of, and sale of alcohol illegal. The amendment passed both chambers of the U.S. Congress in December 1917 and was ratified by the requisite three-fourths of the states on January 16, 1919.
