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Coal Strike of 1902
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. -
Newlands Reclamation Act
An American law that authorized the federal government to commission water diversion, retention and transmission projects in arid lands, particularly in the far west. -
United States Forest Service
An agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. -
Food and Drug Administration
A federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, bio-pharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, cosmetics, animal food, and veterinary products. -
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. -
Revenue Act of 1913
An American Law that re-imposed the federal income tax after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%. -
Sixteenth Amendment
An important amendment that allows the federal government to levy an income tax from all Americans. Other taxes, such as taxes on houses or other property are considered “direct” taxes by the Constitution and would have to be divided back among the states. -
Federal Reserve Act
An American law that created and established the Federal Reserve System, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes as legal tender. -
Federal Trade Commission
Focuses on the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly. -
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, 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.