Progressive Era Reforms by Elijah Montijo

Tenement Act (1901)

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This law required tenements to have windows, toilets, and more space.

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This law required manufacturers to correctly label products and regulate the quality of the food that they sell.

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This law made it so trained officials were required to inspect meat that is made a company to determine if it can be sold.

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A department that enforced the Keating-Owen Act, the Adamson Act, and the Workman's Compensation Act.

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This act gave the government the ability to control the amount of money that was distributed to the currency of banks.

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This Amendment made it so that all American citizens had to pay income tax.

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This Amendment makes sure that there is an election for two US senators for every state by popular vote.

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This Act ensures that workers will have 8 hour workdays, and be paid for overtime.

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Encourages people who advertise to mention their competition by name.

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Strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and discouraged specific bad business practices.

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Discouraged child labor, and prohibited the shipping of factory made goods that were made by employed children.

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Also known as Prohibition, this Act banned the production, transportation and sale of alcohol.

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Also known as women's suffrage, this Amendment granted women the right to vote.