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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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United States Supreme Court decision where a state law sets a maximum number of working hours for women and equal pay.
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Protected and set aside public lands and waters to conserve America's fish, wildlife, and plants.
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The Elkins Act eliminated businesses with unfair business practices; imposed heavy fines on railroads offering rebates and shippers excepting them.
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Congress created the Special Agent Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the US.
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Ensured that meat and meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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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.
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Authorized ICC to set maximum railroad rates. It's a railroad legislation.
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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.
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The 16th amendment allowed the government to collect the people's taxes.
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The 17th Amendment established the direct election of United State Senators by popular vote.
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Created a federal baking system in the United States.
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Consumer protection and elimination of prevention of anti-competitive business practices like coercive monopolies.
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Made barriers for a broad rage of anti-competitiveness issuses. Clarification of Anti-Sherman Act.
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Service that helps build national parks, monuments, historic sites, and recreational areas.
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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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Made work days for workers only ten hours. Required businesses to pay time and a half wages for over time up to three hours.
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United States Supreme Court decision imvolving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption.
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The 19th Amendment established the rights for women to vote.
(women's rights)
