In the 1790s!
Started in 1862 as the bureau of internal revenue, name changed to internal revenue service in 1953.
This was designed to protect the interest of former slaves. Includes helping them find new employment and improve educational and health facilities. In the following year the Bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,00 schools, 100 hospitals, and food for former slaves.
1906
The Freeman's Bureau was established by Congress on 3rd March, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and health facilities. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals and providing homes and food for former slaves.
2010
1 year
1908
In the 1790s!
$11,242.24 Based on the Consumer Price Index average for each year compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Started in 1862 as the bureau of internal revenue, name changed to internal revenue service in 1953.
There are several important reasons for some sort of formal "consumer protection." To take it first from the consumer's point of view, the seller has possession of the item for sale and is in a much better position to know the product and/or prevent the consumer from seeing anything wrong with it. Very often, also, the seller is in a financially superior position in general and is able to intimidate the purchaser. Finally, in a society like ours in the U.S. where the producer may be far away from the market, consumer protection prevents a seller from escaping the consequences of inferior or dangerous products just because the victim is far away. From the society's (including the seller's) point of view, some sort of consumer protection allows there to be more trust between the parties to a sale. This reduces negotiation time and other "transaction" costs and makes it possible to do more business. That is, theoretically, one reason the American and European commercial systems are more stable and prosperous than those of some third-world countries.
inflation and deflation
Depending on how you look at it, the FBI was either created in 1908 or 1935. In 1908 the US Attorney General organized a formal Bureau of Investigation (BOI or BI), complete with its own staff of special agents to deal with crimes involving interstate commerce. At the time it was considered part of the Secret Service within the Justice Department. In 1932, it was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year (1933) it started working with the Bureau of Prohibition to enforce prohibition and renamed the Division of Investigation (DOI). Finally in 1935 it became its own independent service and took on its current name - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
1935 Bureau of Investigation 1908-1932 US Bureau of Investigation 1932 Division of Investigation 1933-35 FBI 1935 - date
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands wascreated by Congress in March 1865 to assist for one year in the transition from slavery to freedom in the South
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