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National Reclamation Act
This is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Elkins Act
The Elkins Act ended the common practice of the railroads granting rebates to their most valued customers. -
National Wildlife Refuge System
This is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Refuge System is the system of public lands and waters set aside to conserve America's fish, wildlife and plants. -
U.S. Forest Service
This is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. -
Hepburn Act
This act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. -
Meat Inspection Act
This act works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines -
Muller v. Oregon
This justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. -
NAACP
This group is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It helped to work for African American rights. -
The Sixteenth Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
The Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendement allows us to directly elect our senators. -
Federal Reserve Act
The central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue money. -
Federal Trade Commsion Act
This established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
This act prohibited exclusive sales contracts, local price cutting to freeze out competitors, rebates, interlocking directorates in corporations. -
National Park Service
This is the United States federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
This act was 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
A Supreme Court case in which the ten hour work day was argued. -
Hammer v. Dagenhart
This was a United States Supreme Court decision involving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws -
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. -
The Ninteenth Amendment
The Ninteenth Amendment made it possible for women to be able to vote.
