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Elkins Act
Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Hepburn Act
United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. -
Meat Inspection Act
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16th Amendment
Allowed congess to collect income tax without dividing it within the states. -
17th Amendment
Provided for the direct election of U.S. senators by citizens -
Federal Reserve Act
Created and set up the Federal Reserve System and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Added further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
A short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily. -
Bunting v. Oregon
Made it able to accept a 10 hour work day. -
Hammer v. Dagengart
A United States Supreme Court decision involving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws. -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. -
19th Amendment
Guarantees American women the right to vote.
