Sarah's APUSH Blog

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed under President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, that worked to strengthen the power of the government in dealing with monopolies. It also laid out the foundation for the current practices of the government to regulate monopolies. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was one of the first attempts by a president to control big businesses. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed under Theodore Roosevelt, the trust-buster, which was a less detailed act than the one passed by Wilson. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act limited the power once held by big businessmen and businesses. The difference between the two acts was that the Clayton Anti-Trust Act made it so that it could not be used against unions.The Clayton Anti-Trust act made a bigger difference because the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was not enforced which allowed for big business to continue.At the time that the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed, the Federal Trade Commissions Act was passed which created the FTC. Both of thes

The act, also known as Wick's Bill, was passed to try and deal with the unsafe working conditions faced by young children in the early 1900s. This act prohibited the sale in interstate commerce with goods produced by factories, companies, and other employers who employed children under the age of fourteen. The act also regulated the number of hours that teens could work, in an attempt to end child labor. A few years after the passing of this act, it was ruled unconstitutional. Both the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act and Upton Sinclair's photos from his book, The Jungle, tried to expose the unsafe working conditions that workers faced and that plagued the U.S. 

Wilson begins his address by talking about how the majority of the government had become democratic. He then continues by stating how as the nation has grown, so has corruption. He says that his goal is to correct the evils without affecting the good. He also says that the government should act out of the interest of humanity.From this, he says that changes need to be made. These changes include many reforms made in the workforce to protect workers, get rid of tariffs, reforming the bank and money systems, stressing the importance of farming and agriculture, and putting more time into forests and restoring the environment. His goals were to make America a wonderful and prosperous nation by improving it in every aspect.                                                                                                                 Both Trump and Wilson promised the American people that they would get rid of coruption and improve the lives of the working class.

The passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1963 was a landmark act because it was enforced by the government. The act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. It also came in the throws of the Civil Rights Movement that rippled throughout the U.S. One dream that MLK Jr. talked about that I liked was, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Another dream that I liked was, "I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers". I think that these dreams are my favorite because they speak volume to who he was and I am also able to re