Rough Draft
The year of 1918 played a crucial role in shaping the future of the whole world with the actions of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the influenza pandemic, the case of Hammer v. Dagenhart case, the propaganda used in World War I, and the fashion.
January 8, 1918, many months after the United States entered World War I along with the allies which included Britain, Russia, France, and Italy, President Woodrow Wilson delivered the Fourteen Points to the United States congress. In it, he shaped a plan that would end the war and disseminate peace for the world after the war. Though his plan was commended by many, it did not excite the leaders of the warring nations. “First, the United States held what it considered to be the moral …show more content…
Dagenhart case was a supreme court case that overturned the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, which attempted to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce goods by factories that employed children under fourteen. Although it was common for children to work at an early age, the stories of the terrible working conditions brought public order for change. “The Keating-Owen Act outlawed the interstate commerce of goods manufactured by businesses that employed young children. The act was challenged by Roland Dagenhart, a cotton mill worker who wanted his underage sons to work at the mill” (“Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 1). Sadly, there were many stories where children would get killed by machines not intended for children, or how children would get either their fingers or hands pared by the machines. This is why this act had to put into action, so it could bring order for change. Until, a man named Roland Dagenhart, challenged the act and would spiral into a case. “Creating national legislation to address child labor posed a challenge. Under the commerce clause Congress was authorized to regulate commerce between states, but nothing in the constitution authorized congress to directly regulate manufacturing. Relying on its powers under the commerce clause, Congress passed the Keating-Owen Act of 1916” (“Hammer v. Dagenhart” (1918) 1). The only law Congress relied on was the commerce clause which allowed Congress to regulate the workplace between states. Then, Dagenhart’s lawyer argued that the clause did not permit Congress to regulate the workplace and that the tenth amendment had that power for individual states. “Hammer was not the only case in which the Supreme Court restricted government authority in the early twentieth century. Between 1905 and 1935 the court consistently opposed legislative efforts to regulate trade...In Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922), the court struck down the 1919 Child Labor Tax Law, another
The year of 1918 played a crucial role in shaping the future of the whole world with the actions of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the influenza pandemic, the case of Hammer v. Dagenhart case, the propaganda used in World War I, and the fashion.
January 8, 1918, many months after the United States entered World War I along with the allies which included Britain, Russia, France, and Italy, President Woodrow Wilson delivered the Fourteen Points to the United States congress. In it, he shaped a plan that would end the war and disseminate peace for the world after the war. Though his plan was commended by many, it did not excite the leaders of the warring nations. “First, the United States held what it considered to be the moral …show more content…
Dagenhart case was a supreme court case that overturned the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, which attempted to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce goods by factories that employed children under fourteen. Although it was common for children to work at an early age, the stories of the terrible working conditions brought public order for change. “The Keating-Owen Act outlawed the interstate commerce of goods manufactured by businesses that employed young children. The act was challenged by Roland Dagenhart, a cotton mill worker who wanted his underage sons to work at the mill” (“Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 1). Sadly, there were many stories where children would get killed by machines not intended for children, or how children would get either their fingers or hands pared by the machines. This is why this act had to put into action, so it could bring order for change. Until, a man named Roland Dagenhart, challenged the act and would spiral into a case. “Creating national legislation to address child labor posed a challenge. Under the commerce clause Congress was authorized to regulate commerce between states, but nothing in the constitution authorized congress to directly regulate manufacturing. Relying on its powers under the commerce clause, Congress passed the Keating-Owen Act of 1916” (“Hammer v. Dagenhart” (1918) 1). The only law Congress relied on was the commerce clause which allowed Congress to regulate the workplace between states. Then, Dagenhart’s lawyer argued that the clause did not permit Congress to regulate the workplace and that the tenth amendment had that power for individual states. “Hammer was not the only case in which the Supreme Court restricted government authority in the early twentieth century. Between 1905 and 1935 the court consistently opposed legislative efforts to regulate trade...In Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (1922), the court struck down the 1919 Child Labor Tax Law, another