Timeline

1900–1919 ∼ Expanding Legal and Governmental Controls

Supreme Court upholds the right of employer and employee to contract for working hours free from government control in Lochner v. New York (1905) / Supreme Court upholds an Oregon law limiting maximum working hours of women in Muller v. Oregon (1908) / Income tax first levied on personal income (16^th Amendment 1913) / Direct Election of Senators (17^th Amendment 1913) / Clayton Anti-Trust Act is designed to strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by prohibiting corporate practices that were not specified as illegal, such as price fixing (1914) / Supreme Court rules that Congress has no authority to forbid the shipment of products made by children because the products themselves were not harmful in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) / Prohibition of Alcoholic Beverages (18^th Amendment 1919) / Supreme Court sustains the Espionage Act of 1917 against a challenge that it violated the guarantee...