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19th Amendment
This amendment gave women the right to vote. -
16th Amendment
This amendment gives the government permission to force an income tax without any warning given to any of the states. -
17th Amendment
This amendment allowed the election of senators to the people. -
Pendleton Act
It is a federal law that established various positions in the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Meat Inspection Act
The act gave Secretary of Agriculture the right to inspect and condemn any meat products that were deemed unhealthy for human consumption. This wasn’t passed to ban all meat, but more for the safety of American health. Despite any food that was unhealthy being banned, most products still had various warnings printed on to their labels. -
Antiquities Act
This law gives the President full authority to create national monuments on federal land to preserve various cultural, natural, or scientific features of the land. Since its creation this law has been used over one hundred times. -
Pure Food and Drug act
To ban foreign traffic for mislabeled food and drug products, and required that the US Bureau of Chemistry to inspect food and drug products and inform the offenders to prosecutors. It was also required that the product must have its active ingredients printed on to the label, and could not fall below the US purity standard. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The goal of this law was to add on to the antitrust law regime. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor act
It was a short lived law, that was also known as Wick’s Bill, which addressed child labor. -
18th Amendment
This law made it so that producing, selling, and transportation of alcohol illegal, however simply consuming or secretly owning it wasn’t. President Woodrow Wilson had initially decided to veto this amendment, but the House of Representatives had agreed to override the veto, and allow the amendment to go through.
