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Progressive Era.
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Coal strike of 1902
Took place because of the inferior condition and pay for coal workers. -
Meat inspection act
The act, also signed in by President Roosevelt in 1906, prohibited the selling of adulterated or misbranded livestock, etc. -
Food and drug administration
In 1906, president Roosevelt signed in the Food and Drug Act, prohibiting the interstate transport of food which had been "adulterated,"false coloring meant to cover up "damage or inferiority," etc. -
Newlands reclamation act
The act, set in place in 1911, kept money from sales of semi-arid public lands separate, only to be used for construction and maintenance of irrigation projects. -
Children's Bureau
The Children's Bureau, created in 1912, is a federal agency organized under the US's Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. -
Revenue act of 1913
The Revenue Act of 1913 re-imposed the federal income tax after the placement of the Sixteenth Amendment, lowering basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment gives Congress the ability to levy an income tax without basing it on the United States Census. -
federal reserve act
The Federal Reserve Act, set in 1913, created and established the Federal Reserve System and created the authority to issue the US dollar as legal currency. -
Federal trade commission
The Federal Trade Commission, set in place in 1914, is an independent agency, with the principal mission of promoting consumer protection and the prevention of things like monopolies. -
Keating-Owens child labor act
The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act, set in motion in 1916, was a statute enacted Congress that addressed child labor, prohibiting the sale of goods produced by factories that employed children.