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The Tenement House Act not only 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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Harvey Washington Wiley (1844- 1930), the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, a crusader for federal regulation of food and drugs.

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Upton Sinclair (1878- 1968), a reformer and writer whose novel The Jungle (1906) exposed conditions in the meat-packing industry.

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In June, 1884, Congress established a Bureau of Labor as part of the Department of the Interior. In 1888, Congress gave the bureau independent status as the Department of Labor, but its commissioner did not have a position with the president's cabinet. The commissioner reported directly to the president.

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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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Congress enacted the Adamson Act in response to Wilson's message, granting labor an eight-hour workday and overtime compensation.

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In the early 1970s, several officials from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressed their belief that in advertisements, marketers should not refer to their competitors as "Brand X," but should call them instead by their real name. At the time, such "Brand X" references, along with replacing the competitor's brand name with a "beep" sound, were common practice.

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On October 15, 1914, Congress passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act (H.R. 15657). This law was designed to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by fully codifying specific illegal antitrust activities.

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With expansion of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, conditions for workers on the job were often harsh.

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Prohibition was a period during the early twentieth century when the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was banned in the United States.

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Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . Women's suffrage rights had not come quickly or easily.