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The '''Transportation Act of 1920''' returned railroads into private ownership after [[World War I]] era [[Nationalization]] by President [[Woodrow Wilson]].  The act effectively abolished the [[United States Railroad Administration]], but significantly increased the ICC's power.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O1tcAW6C5mAC&pg=PA48 Interstate Economic Relations]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=55ghk_xYpToC&pg=PA1232 Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy: K-Z]</ref>

This act was one of the first progressive-era Grants-in-aid legislative acts designed to erode the states' discretion and bring them under the control of the federal government.

==See also==
* [[Grant-in-aid]]

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