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Progressive Timeline
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National Reclamation Act
United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of twenty states in the Western part of the US.
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Muller vs. Oregon
United States Supreme Court decision where a state law sets a maximum number of working hours for women and equal pay.
(Woman's rights) -
National Wildlife Refuge System
Protected and set aside public lands and waters to conserve America's fish, wildlife, and plants.
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Elkins Act
The Elkins Act eliminated businesses with unfair business practices; imposed heavy fines on railroads offering rebates and shippers excepting them.
(monopolies and business excess) -
United State Forest Service
Congress created the Special Agent Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the US.
(conservation) -
Meat Inspection Act
Ensured that meat and meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
(consumer) -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Law to remove harmful and misrepresented foods and drugs from the market and regulate the manufacture and sale of drugs and food involved in interstate trade.
(consumer) -
Hepburn Act
Authorized ICC to set maximum railroad rates. It's a railroad legislation.
(monopolies and business excess) -
NAACP
Means National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Black civil right organization in the US. It's mission was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people and eliminate racial hatred and discrimination. -
Ratification of the 16th Amendment
The 16th amendment allowed the government to collect the people's taxes.
(Corruption in gorernment) -
Ratification of the 17th Amendment
The 17th Amendment established the direct election of United State Senators by popular vote.
(corruption of government) -
Federal Reserve Act
Created a federal baking system in the United States.
(corruption in government) -
Federal Trade Commission Act
Consumer protection and elimination of prevention of anti-competitive business practices like coercive monopolies.
(monopolies and business excess) -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Made barriers for a broad rage of anti-competitiveness issuses. Clarification of Anti-Sherman Act.
(monopolies and business excess) -
National Park Service
Service that helps build national parks, monuments, historic sites, and recreational areas.
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Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Adressed child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods prodiced by factories that employed children under the age of 14, mines children under 16, and any facility where children under 16 worked at night or more than eight hours daily.
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Bunting vs. Oregon
Made work days for workers only ten hours. Required businesses to pay time and a half wages for over time up to three hours.
(labor problems) -
Hammer vs. Dagerhart
United States Supreme Court decision imvolving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws.
(labor problems) -
Ratification of the 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption.
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Ratification of the 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment established the rights for women to vote.
(women's rights)
