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Progressive Era
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Coal Strike of 1902
When 140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike and demanded a 20 percent raise, a nine-hour workday, and the right to organize a union, the mine operators refused to bargain. Roosevelt had a talk about the strike at the White House with the opposing sides and it was settled. -
Newlands Reclaimation Act
(Domestic Policy) (1902) Act that provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West. These would open new lands for cultivation. The act had little effect for the first twenty years of its existence, but eventually it provided for years of federal aid for irrigation and the development of electrical power in the western states. -
Northern Securities Company
The Court found the holding company to be violating the Federal Anti-Trust Act because it restraint interstate and international commerce. The Federal Anti-Trust Act applied because it sought to eliminate competition between competitive railroads. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
the cabinet department created in 1903 by Teddy Roosevelt to help with increasing antagonism between capital and labor -
Food and drug administration
prevent mislabeling of food and under items that contained morphine, cocaine, or alcohol would have to be labeled on the outside. Coca-Cola changed its recipe, Conservation on the national level -
United States Forest Act
is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres (780,000 km2). Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, and the Research and Development branch. -
Social Welfare Programs
Programs which helped insure a minimum standard of living. Programs were unemployment, accident and health insurance, and the social security system -
Children's Bureau
Apart of the Labor Department, they focused on problems growing out of the war: the increase in employment of married women, the finding of day care for children of working mothers, and the growth of both child labor and delinquency. -
System of national parks
Us created national parks including parkways,memorials, monuments, and preserves to keep purity and peace -
Bureau of Mines
Govt office est. by Taft to control mineral resources, rescue millions of acres of We. Coal lands, and protect water-power sites from private development