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Progressive Era
4 goals:
protecting social welfare,
promoting moral improvement,
creating economic reform,
fostering efficiency -
Newlands Reclamation Act
It was a law that allowed the federal government to get involved in creating massive irrigation (Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals. Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average rainfall) projects in the Western United States. This focused on fostering effiency because crops could now be better protected. -
Coal Strike
Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to major American cities. This falls under creating economic reform because workers protested for better pay. -
Meat Inspection Act
An law that makes it a crime to alter or mislabel meat that is sold as food. Also makes sure meat is slaughtered and processed in sanitary conditions. This falls under protecting social welfare because it's seeking to help better the health of Americans'. -
Bureau of Mines
The bureau was created to deal with a wave of catastrophic mine disasters. This focuses on protecting social welfare because its purpose was to avoid more casualties that came with mining. -
Children's Bureau
The bureau from it's foundation focused on "the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth-rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several states and territories." This promotes protecting social welfare because the welfare of children became a concern. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. This focuses on creating economic reform because it changed how the government taxes. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is basically making the us dollar the official currency of the us. This focuses on creating economic reform because the government changed the way currency worked. -
Revenue Act
The Revenue Act is also known as the Tariff Act re-imposed the federal income tax after the validation of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%. This focused on creating economic reform because the economy changed. -
Federal Trade Commission
Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. This focuses on creating economic reform because the economy would no longer be at the mercy of monopolies. -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
It was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under fourteen worked after 7:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m. or more than eight hours daily. This focused on protecting social welfare because the concern of child labor was attempted to be fixed.