Progressive Timeline

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  • Mann-Elkins Act

    This act allowed railroads to actively demonstrate that a rate was reasonable. With these new powers, the ICC gained almost complete control over rail rates, and therefore much of rail competition.

  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    This act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.

  • Hepburn Act

    This act fortified the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission and it strengthened federal regulation of railroads.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    This act prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency the (FDA).

  • Antiquities Act

    This law gives the president of the United States the authority to create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features.

  • Workers Compensation Act

    This act provides workers compensation coverage for employment-related injuries and occupational diseases. Benefits include wage replacement payment for medical care

  • 17th Admendment

    This said that the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years and each Senator shall have one vote.

  • 16th Amendment

    This grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population.It allowed Congress to collect tax from every American.

  • Federal Reserve Act

    The act was to protect the American economy by establishing prerequisites for a regulated government. the Fed manipulates interest rates to ensure that the supply of money on the U.S. market is equal to the needs of the market, preventing recession and inflation.

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    This act was to have fair competition between businesses and protection of consumers against fraudulent business practices.

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

    This act defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor, Like the rights of labor to organize and protest peacefully.

  • Keating-Owen Act

    This act made Congress restrict child labor through its power to regulate interstate commerce. The act limited children's working hours and prohibited the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor.

  • Adamson Act

    This act established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad workers.

  • 18th Amendment

    This prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors. But not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption.

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote.

  • Volstead Act

    This act provides enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages