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Yellowstone National Park
Congress established Yellowstone National Park in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming "as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and placed it "under exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior -
Elkins Act
This Act authorized the ICC to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shipper that accepted these rebates, Railroad companies are not permitted to offer rebates -
U.S v Northern Securities
Was a case heard by the U.S Supreme Court. The court ruled 5 to 4. Made all big comapnies that had turned into monoploies to dissolve into smaller companies -
The Jungle
The book portrayed the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the U.S in Chicago and similiar industrialzed cities -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Meat Inspection Act
This act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock. All livestock has to be inspected by the USDA befores slaughtering of that animal
