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What president created this law?

Friday, November 27th, 2009
Ana asked:


This is homework for American Cultures and i can’t find them anywhere. Please help! Thanks!
* Direct primaries for nomination of state and national officers. Woodrow Wilson
* Effective legislation looking to the prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary unemployment and other injurious effects incident to modern industry. Woodrow Wilson
* Fixing of minimum safety and health standards for various occupations and the exercise of the public authority of State and Nation, including Federal control over inter-State commerce.
* Prohibition of child labor.
* Minimum wage standards.
* Establishment of the eight-hour day for women and young persons.
* Publicity as to wages, hours, and conditions and labor; full reports upon industrial accidents and diseases; and the opening to public inspection of all tallies, weights, measures, and check systems on labor products.
* A system of social insurance adapted to American use.
* Organization of workers…as a means of protecting their interests and promoting their progress.
* National regulation of inter-State corporations.
* The natural resources of the nation must be promptly developed and generously used to supply the people’s needs, but we cannot safely allow them to be wasted, exploited, monopolized or controlled against the general good.
* It is the National obligation to develop our rivers, and especially the Mississippi and its tributaries under a comprehensive plan … designed to secure its highest usefulness for navigation, irrigation, domestic supply, water power, and the prevention of floods.
* Completion of the Panama Canal, built and paid for by the American public.
* Securing equal Suffrage to men and women alike.
* Legislation compelling the registration of lobbyists, publicity of committee hearings, except foreign affairs, and the recording of all votes in committees.
* Establish a Department of Labor.
* The construction of national highways.
* A graduated income tax.
* The ratification of the pending amendment to the Constitution giving the Government power to levy an income tax.
* We pledge our party to use its best endeavors to substitute judicial and other peaceful means of settling international differences.
(PS i didn’t mean CREATE the last, just get them passed by congress. I typed this quickly and didn’t really think about it)