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Coal Strike of 1902
This was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America. They wanted higher wages, shorter work days, and recognition of their unions. This falls under creating economic reform, because these people were sticking up for themselves and trying to provide more for themselves and families. Without these people, coal mines would not be working and therefore they were trying to create economic reform. -
Northern Securities v. United States
This case was about how the stockholders of Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies essentially formed a monopoly, but was dissolved after a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court. This falls under economic reform because when we have monopolies with large businesses, it takes away from other companies and profit being brought into our economy. -
United States Forest Service
It was established within Department of Agriculture as a way to preserve our forests. This falls under fostering efficiency because their mission was to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests. By protecting forests, we foster the efficiency all that they can give us. -
Food and Drug Administration
The FDA was signed into law by Roosevelt to prohibit the interstate transport of food which had been manipulated with. This falls under protecting social welfare because now people were receiving food that was safe to eat, and was free of harsh chemicals, dyes, etc. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act is a law that makes it illegal to manipulate or misbrand meat(s) sold as food. This falls under protecting social welfare because just like the FDA, it gave companies guidelines so people were not consuming unsanitary meat. -
Children's Bureau
The Children's Bureau was designed to help children who have unsafe families or no where to live. Foster homes, adoption, child abuse prevention, etc. were all organized through this bureau. It can fall under promoting moral improvement. It promotes moral improvement for parents to realize that children are in fact human too and should not be treated as if they aren't, along with protecting the morals of kids and allowing them to grow up in a safe place. Protecting social welfare is a goal too. -
Sixteenth Amendment
This Amendment allows the government to collect income tax from all Americans. This falls under creating economic reform because by collecting these taxes, the government now has money for schools, roads, bridges, etc. That help all daily lives while still allowing the economy to have money. -
Federal Reserve Act
This act was put in place for the central bank of the United States. It falls under creating economic reform because it provides our nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable financial system. -
Federal Trade Commission
This commission protects us, consumers, from businesses along with protecting other businesses by prohibiting monopolies. This falls under protecting social welfare because consumers are now protected from unsafe, unregulated, etc products. This also prohibits competitive business practices, like coercive monopoly. -
Keating-Owens Child Labor Act
This Child Labor Act was set in place by Wilson. It was to prohibit the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories with employed children under the age of 14, under the age of 16 in mines, and working children before 6 a.m. or after 7 p.m. or more than 8 hours a day. This goes under protecting social welfare because kids were being worked too hard in hard jobs and therefore took away from all the things that you enjoy as a child. It was unfair, and unconstitutional.