Consumer Protection & Labor
This 1906 law aimed to protect consumers from unsafe or falsely labeled food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This amendment made producing, selling, and transporting alcoholic beverages illegal.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This type of protected land was expanded as presidents set aside wilderness areas.
What are national parks?
This reform gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is women's suffrage?/The 19th amendment.
This federal agency is commonly associated with regulating food and medicines to protect consumers.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This act outlawed companies from forming monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This idea supports protecting resources that can be renewed while avoiding waste of resources that cannot be renewed.
What is conservation?
This tax system charges people with higher incomes a higher tax rate.
What is a graduated tax?
This law prohibited certain companies from employing children younger than 14.
What is the Keating-Owen Act (or Child Labor Act)?
This act set the rates that railroads could charge.
What is the Hepburn Act?
This president's reputation as a progressive suffered after he signed a bill that increased tariffs.
Who was William Howard Taft?
This process uses a neutral third party to help resolve a dispute.
What is arbitration?
This agency was created in order to protect consumers from fraud.
What is the Federal Trade Commission? (FTC)
This act addressed monopolies and unfair business practices, strengthening federal efforts to regulate competition.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
These three presidents worked to protect the environment by setting aside land for national parks.
Who were Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
This approach protects wilderness lands from development.
What is preservation?
This general reform movement sought to protect consumers and workers from unsafe products and harmful working conditions.
What is Progressivism (or the Progressive movement)?
This Roosevelt program regulated big business, protected workers, and aimed to preserve the environment.
What is the Square Deal?
In the Election of 1912, this Democratic candidate won after the Republican vote was divided between Taft and Roosevelt.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This approach limits resource use so resources will be available for future generations.
What is conservation?