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Tenement House Act
Before this act the buildings were poorly built, had very little to no ventilation making it very hot inside and was extremely over populated. Dark, poorly ventilated tenement buildings would now require facing windows in every room, indoor toilets and a fire safe guard. This act was passed for the people living in tenement houses for them to be able to live in a more comfortable, safe, humane environment. -
Reclamation Act
The reclamation act of 1902 was a law of the United States which founded irrigation projects for 20 states in west America. This act set money aside from sales of semi arid public lands to favor the construction of irrigation projects. This led to almost every single western river to form. Water was provided for 10 million acres of farmland, which provided 60% of the nations vegetation and 25% of the fruit vegetation. -
Roosevelt's Square Deal
The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal. it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. -
Elkins Act and Hepburn Act
The Elkin’s Act prevented railroads from giving discounts to their biggest users such as oil companies .The big companies used the discount they were given to their advantage and would buy out all the space for their business leaving little space for the smaller companies. . Under the Hepburn act the interstate commerce commission was empowered, they had control of setting a maximum rate and making things fair for both big and small businesses. -
Federal Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
Important key piece to the Progressive Era legislation it was passed in 1906 and signed by president Theodore Roosevelt. The first federal law regulating foods and drugs, principally a "truth in labeling" law designed to raise standards in the food and drug industries. The Federal Meat Inspection Act prevented mislabeled meat to be sold. Meat They needed to be to be slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Bull Moose Party
The Bull Moose Party was founded by Theodore Roosevelt as a Progressive Party. It was made in order to split the votes of republican voters in the election of 1912. Rural farmers and agricultural labors, progressive party supporters and middle class needed a change. They needed a change in the government, economy and civil rights who resided the cities. -
National Women’s Party
. The point of this party was to advocate total legal and political equality for women. They wanted a Amendment for Women's Sufferage. The Democratic Party, which was controlled by the two houses of congress and the white house, would be put into pressure to fight for the right of women into suffrage. In 1923, it fought really hard for and Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution. -
17th Amendment
Established direct election for the US senators by popular vote. The amendment replaced in the constitution where senators were elected by us legislature. People could vote for their senators instead than the Us legislature. This measure was meant to fight cooruption in Government, -
16th Amendment
The Constitution originally prohibited direct taxes on individuals. Ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 however, the federal government the power to tax the income of individuals directly, All income taxes had been considered indirect taxes imposed without respect to geography, unlike direct taxes, that must be apportioned among the states according to population -
Revenue Act of 1913
16th amendment allowed the Congress to levy an income tax. The underwood-Simmons Tariff or Revenue Act re-imposed the federal income tax and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%. The government imposed an income tax. If someone earned less than $4,000 per year that person would be exempt of the tax. $4,000 to $20,000 paid a 1% tax. 6%, for people who earned $500,000 a year. -
The Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 created the Federal Commission. It is conformed by five members, appointed by the president of the US. This group of people has the authority to order large corporation to curb unfair trade practices. Therefore it can regulate the managing of large corporations. -
The Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton antitrust act The Clayton Act made both substantive and practical modifications to federal antitrust law. Substantively, the act seeks to capture anticompetitive practices in their beginning by prohibiting particular types of conduct, not deemed in the best interest of a competitive market. It added on the the Sherman Antotrust Act of 1890. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transportation and exportation of alcohol. The amendment was abolished in 1933, the only case in United States history that an amendment was revoked. This reformed happened due to decades of effort by the temperance movement, which intended to restrain the use of alcohol. The result of this amendment was a public demand for illegal alcohol, which made the producers and consumers criminals. -
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
In 1918, a law establishing a minimum wage for children and women was passed by the District of Columbia. Whose constitutionality was challenged. This law forced employers to pay there women and child workers a predetermined minimum wage. The united states supreme court found that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of of liberty of contract, as protected by the 5th Amendment. Today there is a minimum wage. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart Supreme Court Case
The case of Hammer v. Dagenhart, heard by the Supreme Court in 1918, challenged the Keating-Owen Act of 1916. The act prohibited interstate sale of merchandise made in factories that employed children under 14, or in which children under 16 worked more than eight hours a day, overnight, or more than six days a week. The court reversed the 1916 act, and ruled that the government did not have the right to enforce the sale of products made by children. -
19th Amendment
It gave American women the right to vote. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." . It was the resulted of 70 years of women’s effort, based on the sacred right to vote as American citizens. The movement that started this was the national woman suffrage.
