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Meat Inspection Act
This act made it illegal to misbrand meat products and meat being sold as food. This act also ensures that meat is products are processed in strictly regulated conditions. -
Hepburn Act
This law expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It also allowed the Commission to set the railroads at maximum rates. This law led to the discontinuation of the free passes to loyal shippers. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act was created to prevent the transportation, manufacture, and sale of misbranded or poisonous food, drugs, medications, etc. This also laid the foundation for the FDA. -
Antiquities Act
This was the first act to provide a general amount of legal protection over natural and cultural resources of scientific or historic interest. It also prevented people from looting Indian artifacts from archaeological sites. -
Mann-Elkins Act
The Interstate Commerce Commission’s authority was strengthened by this federal law. This act also forced railroads to actively demonstrate that the rate was reasonable. -
Workers Compensation Act
This act provided compensation coverage for employees who had work-related accidents, injuries, or diseases. Medical care was paid for, wage replacement, and occasionally medical rehabilitation assistance. -
17th Amendment
This amendment modified Section 3 of Article 1. It allows voters to directly cast their votes for the U.S. senators instead of the senators being chosen by state legislatures. -
16th Amendment
This amendment granted Congress the authority to be able to, without having to determine it based on population, issue an income tax. They could lay and collect taxes, from whatever source, on incomes. -
Federal Reserve Act
This act created a monetary system and national currency. This tactic was able to respond effectively to creating a table financial system and to the banking stresses. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
This act allows the Federal Trade Commission to prevent and investigate any unfair methods in competition or affecting commerce. Their goal is to protect consumers and competition. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This law encouraged fair competition and prevented any more unfair business practices that could potentially harm consumers. It limited further acquisitions and targeted price discrimination. All in all, it prohibits certain actions that might restrict competition in all areas of competition. -
Keating-Owen Act
This act prohibited the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor and limited children's working hours. It banned the sale of products from any facility that employed children under the age of 16 to work more than eight hours or at night. -
Adamson Act
This act established that any employee working overtime received pay, an eight-hour work day for interstate railroad workers. It was created to effectively avoid railroad workers going on a national strike. -
18th Amendment
This amendment prohibited the selling, transporting, and making of any alcoholic beverage. It did not prohibit the consumption, private production or possession, of alcoholic beverages for one's own consumption. -
19th Amendment
This amendment, after decades of protest, legally guarantees all American women the right to vote. First introduced in 1878, it was battled and pushed down by many until 1919. -
Volstead Act
This Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act, said that anything above one-half of one percent alcohol is an intoxicating drink. This Act was designed to execute the 18th Amendment.