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The Tenement House Act not required improvements on ventilation, toilets, and light but set standards that all but banned the construction of buildings on 25-foot-wide lots.

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A series of legislation designed to regulate the quality of food and pharmaceutical products.

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The Meat Inspection Act was based on the premise that the government had the responsibility of protecting consumers from harmful products unfit for human consumption.

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It was in this context that in early January, 1903, Roosevelt called for the creation of a Department of Commerce and Labor, to include a Bureau of Labor and a Bureau of Corporations. The functions of those agencies would be to investigate the operations and conduct of corporations and to provide information about business structure, operations, and working conditions. The bill creating the department also provided for six other bureaus within the department, dealing with matters of immigration, the census, navigation, fisheries, standards, and business statistics.

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The Federal Reserve Act was intended to prevent a national financial crises and promote economic stability.

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On February 25, 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, which required Americans to pay income tax. It took nearly four years of debate to get this amendment passed.

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It allowed for senators to be elected by the people living in the state they represent rather than take office by appointment of the state's legislature.

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Fixed minimum wages and maximum hours for railroad workers.

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government charged with preventing unfair or deceptive trade practices.

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Clayton Antitrust Act, law enacted in 1914 by the United States Congress to clarify and strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890).The Sherman Antitrust Act is, the first legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition.

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The bill prohibited the products of child labor from interstate commerce.

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The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbade in all U.S. territories the making, selling, or transporting of “intoxicating liquors.” It was passed on January 16, 1919.

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On August 18, 1920, American women were given suffrage (the right to vote) with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .