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Federal Reserve Act- the FRA act was passed in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, it separated the nation into 12 districts and established a regional central area bank to each district. They served as the parent banks to their districts.
Keating–Owen Act- the child labor act of 1916 was named for Edward Keating and Robert Owen. It prohibited the sale of interstate commerce by stopping the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under 14, mines employing children younger than 16, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily
Adamson Act- a law passed in 1916 that established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad workers
US Neutrality in WWI- Woodrow Wilson thought that there was to be no progress in an administration in which war was the principal part. But at the outbreak of world war 1 he thought that the US needed to be involved, the US never joined in WW1 but WW2 dominated his 2nd presidency.
Policy towards African-Americans- Woodrow Wilson had promised the NAACP that he would fight for equality and civil rights, after he was elected as president he began opposing anti-lynching legislation, and said that civil rights were under state jurisdiction
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