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Pendleton Act
It's a united states federal law, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams rathen that ties to politicians or political affiliations. -
Antiquities Act
This was the first law to establish that archeological sites on public lands are important public resources. Essentially it protects these lands and preserves them for present and future generations. It also authorizes the president to protect landmarks,structures, and objects of historic or scientific interest by designating them as national monuments. -
Pure Food and Drug act
The Pure Food and Drug act is an act to prevent the manufacture, sale and or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors and for regulating traffic therein and for their purposes “any article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act is hereby prohibited” -
Meat Inspection Act
US legislation signed by president theodore roosevelt prohibited the sale of modified and misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured everyone that animals were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. The USDA (UNited States department of agriculture) inspected all the animals that were to inspect animals before and after being slaughtered for human consumption. -
17th Amendment
The senate of the united states will be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people, for six years and each senator will have one vote… the legislature of any state may overpower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the vacancies are filled by the people. -
16th Amendment
This amendment was part of a wave of federal and state constitutional amendments championed by progressives in the early twentieth century. “This amendment reversed a 1895 supreme court decision that had made a nationwide income tax effectively impossible by invoking what today seems a strange distinction between direct and indirect taxes. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This is an amendment passed by US congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the sherman antitrust act of 1890. The act focuses on price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices. It was used to manage and regulate massive corporations that drove smaller entities out of business. -
Keating Owen Child Labor Act
This was a short lived statute enacted by the US congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14 and mines that employed children under 16 and any facility where children under 14 worked after 7 pm and before 6 pm. -
19th Amendment
This amendment granted women the right to vote, known as women's suffrage, and was made official on August 18th, 1920 and almost a century of protest. On november 2nd of the same year, over 8 million women voted in elections for the same time. It took over 60 years for the rest of the United States to allow women to vote. -
18th Amendment
The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors’ but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption. In contrast to earlier amendments to the constitution, they set a one year time delay before the amendment the would be finally active. The ratification was certified on Jan, 16 1919.
