| What did it do? | Act, case, treaty, agreement, etc. | Year |
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| Allowed a settler to own up to 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal $30 fee | |
| Dissolved tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, and gave individual Indian family heads 160 free acres | |
| Barred Chinese immigration to the US | |
| Prohibited rebates and pools (hehe, no swimming) and required railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers and outlawed charging more for | |
| Forbade combinations in restraint of trade, no differentiation between 'good' and 'bad' trusts | |
| Rearmed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act adding the ban on price discrimination and interlocking directorates, exempted labor and agriculture from antitrust prosecution, and legalized st | |
| In this case, Louis D. Brandeis convinced the Supreme Court to accept the Constitutionality of laws protecting women in the work place, providing evidence that they had weaker bodi | |
| This case decreed that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce | |
| Imposed heavy fines on railroads that gave rebates and on shippers who accepted them | |
| Substantially reduced import fees | |
| Made credit available to farmers at low interest rates | |
| Granted assistance to federal civil-service employees if disabled | |
| Granted territorial status to the Philippines and promised independence once a stable government could be established | |
| Provided and 8-hour work day, with overtime pay for railroad workers | |
| Required meat to be inspected at every point in its journey from the cow to the consumer | |
| Cuba had to confer with the US before signing treaties and couldn't borrow without the US's consent | |
| Said the US would liberate Cuba from Spain, then pull out and return control to the Cubans | |
| | What did it do? | Act, case, treaty, agreement, etc. | Year |
|---|
| Granted limited popular government to Puerto Rico | |
| This case said that the Constitution does not necessarily extend to those outside the US, like the in the territories | |
| Raised import rates to about 48.4% | |
| Ended the Spanish American war | |
| Gave the US permission from Britain to build and fortify the Panama Canal | |
| Agreement between Japan and America agreeing to uphold the Open Door Policy in China and to respect each others' Pacific possessions | |
| The direct election of senators | |
| Ended World War I, placing heavy reparations on Germany and redrawing the map of Europe | |
| Woman Suffrage | |
| Severly restricted free passes given out by railroads and both expanded and extended the ICC | |
| Affirmed the legality of the Espionage and Sedition Acts | |
| Censored those who spoke out against the government | |
| Said 3% of people from one nationality living in the United States at the time of the 1910 census would be allowed to immigrate to the US | |
| Quotas from the Act above were cut to 2% of the 1890 census | |
| Ordered the prohibition of alcohol | |
| Implemented the prohibition of alcohol | |
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