Progressive Era Reform by Omar Abdelslam

Tenement Act 1901

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tenement life was dangerous. The bill was passed in 1901. The Tenement House Act required improvements on ventilation, toilets, and light and standards that all but banned the construction of buildings on 25-foot-wide lots. Newly built tenements would have to be wider, with more space. Tenement buildings had to upgrade had to meet the new, stricter standards.

Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act, 1906

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The combination of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act greatly extended the power of the federal government to regulate goods in interstate commerce.

Department of Labor 1903

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The Department of Commerce and Labor Act of 1903 created the Department of Commerce and Labor, a department within the executive branch of the U.S. federal government. The department included the Bureau of Corporations and the Bureau of Labor. The staffs of these bureaus were to investigate and provide information on corporations, industrial working conditions, and labor-management disputes.

Federal Reserve Act 1913

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President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) signed the Federal Reserve Act, and thereby created the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act was intended to prevent a national financial crises. The legislation established a national system for governmental regulation of currency supply and federal distribution of currency to banks. After years of popular national opposition to the federal government's involvement in the banking system, the passage of the Federal Reserve Act was a turning point.

16th amendment 1913

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The Sixteenth Amendment, which required Americans to pay income tax. It took nearly four years of debate to get this amendment passed. The idea of paying income tax was not new in 1913. the concept of using taxation to fund a federal issue was considered and accepted.

17th Amendment 1914

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The Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. The Constitution was ratified on April 8, 1913, and put into effect for the 1914 election. 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.

Adamson Act

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The Adamson Act was a United States federal law passed in 1916 that established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad worker

Federal Trade Commission

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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. Although the opinions expressed by FTC officials, conveyed in speeches and letters, did not reflect the official position of the Federal Trade Commission,

Clayton Antitrust Act

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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. The Clayton Act forbade a corporation from purchasing stock in a competitive firm, outlawed contracts based on the condition that the purchaser would do no business with the seller's competitors.

keating owens act

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When the United States was a nation of farms, shops, and small mills, the use of children as a means of supplementing a family's income was a practice so common that it attracted little notice and even less concern. The nation's rapid and dramatic transformation into an increasingly industrialized society, however, changed the environment in which children labored and the conditions to which they were regularly exposed. At the same time, changes were taking place in the way children and the childhood years were perceived. More and more Americans began to regard children as a national resource deserving of society's protection and guidance. Reformers such as Jacob Riis, author of The Children of the Tenements (1903), and George Creel, who with the assistance of Denver's juvenile court judge, Ben

18th amendment

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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. This ban was in effect from 1920 until 1933. Despite the fact that it lasted nearly fourteen years, Prohibition failed to curb Americans’ appetite for liquor. In fact, the impact of Prohibition was overwhelmingly negative. The sale of illegally produced or imported alcohol soared during Prohibition and organized crime flourished. Prohibition also contributed to a severe economic decline. This eventually led the federal government to end Prohibition in 1933.

19th amendment

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Voting is the process by which leaders are chosen by the people in democratic countries. During an election, citizens cast their ballot, a document in which voters select their preferred candidate. The ballots are counted and the winners are announced. Each country has its own election laws, which determine who has the right to vote, who is eligible to run for office, when elections are held, how elections are conducted, and how the votes are used to decide the outcome of the election.