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Important Supreme Court Cases of the Progressive Era
Question | Answer |
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Settled that the Constitution did not follow the flag so that citizens of a new American territory did not necessarily have the same rights as American citizens | Insular Cases |
The Court ruled in 1904 that this railway company had a monopoly on transportation and so violated the Sherman Antitrust Act; established Teddy Roosevelt's somewhat undeserved reputation as a trustbuster | Northern Securities Case |
The Court ruled in 1905 that a state could not pass a law limiting how many hours bakery workers worked because that would violate the due process clause of freedom of contract | Lochner v. New York |
The Court in 1908 accepted a state's law that limited the hours a woman could work; famous for Louis Brandeis' novel arguments using social data to prove that working long hours would damage women's health | Muller v. Oregon |
The Court ruled in 1908 that a boycott by a labor union against a company in order to secure union recognition was a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act; later the Clayton Antitrust Act closed this loophole | Danbury Hatters Case |
The Court ruled in 1918 that Congress could not pass a law stopping child labor because that was beyond Congress' authority; the Court used the concept of dual federalism to say that the Congress could not infringe on a state responsibility | Hammer v. Dagenhart |