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Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

Woodrow Wilson declared his support for the women’s suffrage amendment

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

e Lacey Act,banning the shipment of species killed illegally across state lines

the U.S. Supreme Court upheld these laws in a series of rulings, railroads and other companies of such size necessarily affected the public interest and could thus be regulated by individual states

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Trust busting and the handling of monopolies dominated the election,renominated the incumbent Taft

Roosevelt’s administration sued and won in court, and in the Northern Securities Company was ordered to disband into separate competitive companie

Targeting the trusts

Progressive Environmentalism

African American Life

Mobilizing for Reform

1917

over four thousand companies were consolidated down into 257 corporate firms