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Progressive Era - Coggle Diagram

- - - - set aside over 230 million acres of land for protection
      - Antiquities Act - allows President to set aside things as national monuments
    - - Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) - required food to be accurately labeled
        
        created FDA
      - Meat Inspection Act (1906) - animals are inspected, set standards for cleanliness, federal inspection of meat plants #
    - - Elkins Act (1903) + Hepburn Act (1906) - enpowers ICC to stop rebates and set max rates
      - used Sherman Antitrust Act to break up JP Morgan's Northern Securities Company
        
        Roosevelt believed in protecting good trusts
      - mediation of Anthracite Coal Strike
        
        if mine operators refused to listen to workers, he would nationalize coal mines
        
        mine won higher pay/shorter hours, union not recognized
  - - - Standard Oil Decision (1911) - splits into 7 different companies
      - also busts Tobacco Company
      - Mann-Elkins Act (1910) - ICC can set maximum shipping rates and expands to telephone/telegraph companies
      - US Bureau of Mines (1910) - focus on mine safety and a little of conservation
      - Department of Labor (1913) - help the working class to get jobs
        
        Children's Bureau - focus on child labor
    - - National Park Service - created by Wilson in 1916
        
        national wildlife refuges are created
    - - Payne Aldrich Tariff - raised tariff when he campaigned for lower tariffs
      - Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy
      - Taft supports Conservative candidates
  - - - Federal Trade Commission
      - Clayton Antitrust Act
      - Adamson Act
      - Keating Owen ACt
      - Workmen's Compensation Act
    - - Federal Reserve Act
    - - Underwood - Simmons Tariff + Revenue Act