Progressive Era

By amandafroude
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    Progressive Era

  • Cole Strike of 1902

    worker's strike for three days about fire wages and shorter hours. This event falls under creating economic reform because the strikes make a better economy and helps the people

  • Newlands Reclamation Law of 1902

    The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects.The newly irrigated land would be sold and money would be put into a revolving fund that supported more such project

  • United States Forest Service of 1905

    This was created in because of concerns of the Yellow Stone National Park in 1875. In 1876 Congress created an office, to asses the conditions and quality of forests in the United States.

  • Food and Drug Administration of 1906

    The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety. This event falls under moral importance because controlling food safety is an important essential when eaten everyday.

  • Meat Inspection Act of 1906

    An act that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat. It's also to make sure that meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. This will fall under moral importance because

  • Children's Bureau of 1912

    This improves child abuse prevention, foster care, and adoption.

  • Revenue Act of 1913

    Also known as the Tariff Act, re-imposed the federal income tax after the sixteenth amendment and lowered the basic tariff rates from 40%-25%.

  • Sixteenth Amendment of 1913

    The sixteenth amendment was made so that congress could have the power to lay and collect taxes from any source.

  • Federal Trade Commission of 1914

    Administers antitrust and consumer production legislation in pursuit of free and fair competition in the market place. It also was made to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process.

  • Keating-Owens Child Labor Act of 1916

    Addressed child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen.