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Yellowstone Park
North American tribes in the southwest begin acquiring horses in the mid- to late 1600s. President Theodore Roosevelt dedicates arch at the North Entrance in Gardiner while on vacation. US Army turns over park management to the National Park Service. -
created the department of commerce and labor
The cabinet-level department was designed to monitor corporations and ensure that they engaged in fair business practices. The Bureau of Corporations was created under the DOCL to benefit consumers by monitoring interstate commerce, helping dissolve monopolies, and promoting fair competition between companies. -
US v Northern Securities
In Northern Securities v. the United States, the Supreme Court held that the Northern Securities Company was operating as a monopoly and ruled to dissolve it. The decision strengthened the power of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and broadened the
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Muckraking journalists had long reported on the appallingly unsanitary conditions of the country’s manufacturing plants, especially those in Chicago’s meat-packing industry. The public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle that Congress moved on legislation that would prevent the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors. -
Hepburn Act
It was a bill that fortified the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and strengthened federal regulation of railroads. The Act passed after a series of unpopular rate increases by railroad corporations.
