WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Lochner v. New York
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Muller v. Oregon
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers’ right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-2: -New York, case in which, on April 17, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labour a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade.
Detailed explanation-3: -New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905) The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the individual right to freedom of contract. The owner of a bakery in the New York city of Utica, Joseph Lochner, was charged with violating a state law known as the Bakeshop Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -An 1895 law called the Bakeshop Act prohibited New Yorkers from working in a bakery more than 10 hours in one day or 60 hours per week and made it a criminal offense to employ a worker for more than 60 hours a week.