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- Edith Gault
- Wilson's second wife
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- more government regulation (outlawed merger that tend to diminish competition) on business in an effort to break down monopolies
- northern securities co. V. US
- The Supreme court ruled against the NSC because it owned 3 railroads and seemed to turn into a molopoly
- North Sea War Zone
- Declared by Britain to deny Germany supplies
- Federal Trade Commission
- government agency that increased federal authority in the business / corporate world
- underwood tariff
- lower rates from 41% to 29% included an income tax provision to make up for lost goverment revenue.
- Franz Ferdinand
- Political leader of Austria
- meat inspection act
- provided for sanitary regulations and inspections in meat packing facilities. Wartime scandals in 1898 relating to spoiled canned meats
- Adamson Act
- dealt specifically with a railroad strike , this legislation paved the way for the standardization of the 8 hour working day
- indirect taxes
- activity/event
- Espionage Act
- Set fines & prisons sentences for a variety of loosely defined anti war activities
- Keating-Owen
- barred interstate shipment of goods made by children, it was struck down by the Supreme Court
- direct taxes
- people/property
- department of commerce and labor
- a new cabinet position was created to address the relationship between business and labor
- progressive tax
- the more you make, the more you pay
- excise
- tax on the production, sale, or acquisition or a good
- Jeanette Rankin
- Montana Pacifist, 1st women in congress
- regressive tax
- all pay the same tax rate
- Child Labor Act
- Placed a 10% tax on profits of child employing companies. it was struck down by the Supreme Court
- pure food and drug act
- prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or fraudulently labeled foods and drugs
- Harrison Narcotic Control Act
- an act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import..............