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Adamson Act

This law established an eight hour day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime.

Was the first federal law regulating the hours of workers in private companies, and was upheld by the Supreme Court Wilson v new 1917a

Allies

Great Britain, Russia, and France,later joined by Italy,Japan, and the United States, formed this alliance against the central powers in world war 1

Central powers

Germany and Austria-Hungary,later joined by Turkey and Bulgaria, made up this alliance against the allies in world war 1

Clayton anti-trust Act

Law extending the anti-trust protections of the Sherman anti-trust act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints.

Federal Reserve act

1913 an act establishing twelve regional federal reserve banks and a federal reserve board, appointed by the president, to regulate banking and create stability on a national scale in the volatile banking sector.

The law carried the nation through the financial crisis of the First World War 1914-1918

Federal trade commission act

A banner accomplishment of Woodrow wilsons administration, this law empowered a standing presidentially appointed commission to investigate illegal business practices in interstate commerce like unlawful competition , false advertising and mislabeling of goods

Holding companies

A company that owns part of all the other companies stock in order to extend monopoly control . Often a holding company does not produce goods or service of its own but only exist to control other companies

Jones act

Law according to territorial status to the phillipines and promising independence as soon as a "stable government" could be established .

Lusitania

British passenger liner torpedoed and sank by Germany may 7,1915.

Ended the lives of 1,198 people and 128 Americans pushing the us close to war

New freedom

Platforms and reforms advocated by Woodrow Wilson in his first presidential campaign including his stringer antitrust legislation to protect small businesses from monopolies banking reform and tariff reductions .

Roosevelt wanted to create a stronger regulatory agencies to insure that they operated to serve the public interest not just private gain

New nationalism

State interventionist reform program devised by journalist Herbert crony and advocated Theodore Roosevelt during his bull moose presidential campaign