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The Progressive era
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National Reclamation Act
Allowed irrigation programs to be launched and in turn would save resources and would benifit struggling farmers greatly. (farm problems) -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act opposed heavyfines on railroads that offered rebates upon the rebate shippers that would take these rebates.
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National Wildlife Refuge System
Protects certain areas of the United States to preserve wildlife and all its abundance. This system is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Services. (conservation) -
U.S. Forest Service
Much like the national park service this act will administer the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres with support and managment. (conservation) -
Heburn Act.
Gave the national railroad comission the power to create maximum rates for which railroad fees could be set as. This regulated the fees as a whole nation and made it so that there wasn't any highway robbery. (inequality in the distribution of wealth) -
Meat inspection Act
Prohibited the use of meat in manufacturing that portrayed qualities such that is not fit for consumption as approved by organizations like the FDA (which later did end up doing inspections of livestock and poultry to insure this law be carried out) (The Consumer) -
Pure Food and Drug Act.
The first federal law that prohibited interstate sales of food and drug that was deemed poor by certain food and drug managing organizations. (the consumer) -
Muller Vs. Oragon
Basically started fighting so that women could have the same amount of hours to work in as in an average work day (10 hours). This was to insure that later laws about the equality of work be carried out so that women would not get jipped. (Women's rights) -
NAACP
"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" is to an organization established during the progressive era that protects the political, educational, social, and economic equality of the rights of all people and to hopefully end race-based discrimination. (city problems) -
16th Amendment
Allowed the United States Government to take control and regulate income taxes on goods being shipped into the United States. (Monopolies and Buisness excess) -
17th Amendment
This amendment gave the people the power to elect Untited States senators directly by popular vote instead of electing them by means of state legislatures as done in the past. (Coruption in Government) -
Federal Reserve Act
Was created so that the establishment of a federal banking system could be put into play. this also gave the new founded banking system the right to issue federal reserve notes. (the U.S. dollar)
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Federal Trade Comission Act.
A federal organization emerged from this act which specialized in "trust busting" or the art of curbing unfair trade practices from larger corporations. (Monopolies and Buisness excess) -
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Banned the existance of any other anti-trust law to procecute labor unions and farm orgganizations. (farm problems/labor problems) -
Bunting v. Oregon
Was able to except the veiws of a 10 hour work day (for both men and women) (Labor Problems) -
National Park Service
This act was passed in order for a bureau to be established that would in turn protect the 35 parks and monumented the federal goverment had already established. (Conservation) -
Keating-Own Child Labor Act.
Prohibited the sale of goods produced in factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any vacinity where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours a day. (Labor Problems) -
Hammer vs. Dagenhart
Gave congress the right to have the power to manage laws under the new catagory of child labor. (Labor Problems) -
18th amendment
Forbade the consumption, distibution, sales, etc. of alcoholic (intoxicating) beverages. (City Problems) -
19th Amendment
Abolishes the discimination of gender on the basis of voting. (Women's Rights)
