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Progressive Era
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United States Forrest Service
the President of the United States was given the power to set aside forest reserves in the public domain.This falls under creating economic reform because he was reducing the amount of tree reserves -
Coal Strike of 1902
Workers Strike for 3 days about higher wages and shorter hours. This event falls under creating economic reform because they wanted simple tasks but more money. -
Newland's reclamation act
United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. This event falls under Creating economic reform because it was to help create better living environments, -
Created Department of Commerce and Labor
to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.This falls under protecting social welfare because it was provided assistance for people who couldn't afford as much as another. -
Food and Drug Administration
President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Food and Drug Act, also known as the "Wiley Act" after its chief advocate. ... The act also banned misbranding of food and drugs.This falls under promoting moral improvement because it was to enforce banning misbranded food and drugs. -
Meat Inspection Act
an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. this falls under promoting moral improvement because it was a law to enforce something that can better the environment. -
Children's Bureau
a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. This falls under protecting social welfare because it helped families and kids with health and human services -
Sixteenth Amendment
was written to allow Congress to tax income without the hobbling apportionment requirement. This falls under promoting moral improvement because the goal enforced prohibition and structure so people would pay their taxes like the law says -
System of National Parks
a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established This falls under creating economic reform because it was placed to protect parks -
Keating-Owens Child Labor Act
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. This falls under promoting moral improvement because it controlled how many children were working and getting hurt while working under the age.