Acts and Ammendments
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Acts and
Amendments
Pre-constitution
Navigation act- 1651-mercantilism!!! Colonial
products only go to England- $ to England not
Colonies
Sugar Act- 1764- first law b parliament to raise $ for
Crown- tighter custom laws in colonies
Stamp Act- 1765- raise $ for British troops, NO
TAXATATION WITHOUT REPESENTAION
Showed: colonists were entitled to rights and privileges
Used violence not legal means
British believed colonies had no right
Coercive Acts/Intolerable 1774- British response to
Tea Party, closed port of Boston to reduce self
government in Mass. Colony
Requirement of quartering troops
Revolution to Civil War
Kansas
Nebraska Act- 1854- repealed
Missouri Compromise
Applied popular sovereignty to territories
Permitted expansion beyond southern
states (went against Wilmot Proviso)
Sparked formation of Republican party
Radical Republicans
13th
Amendment- abolish slaver
14th –Equal protection under law and
citizenship
Brown vs. Board
Plessey vs. Ferguson
15th
Amendment voting rights for African
American men
Western expansion
Homestead
Act- 1862- encourage settlement in
west- 160 acres free for cultivating in 5yrs
Chinese exclusion act- 1882- first law to exclude
a group from America based on ethnicity
anti-immigration sentiment in west
Dawes
Act 1887- divided Native American tribal
lands into individual homesteads
To assimilate into American culture
Forced civilization views, it destroyed tribes and
wiped out their ownership of land and culture
Progressivism
Sherman
Anti-Trust act- 1890- forbade unreasonable
combinations or contracts in restraint of trade- little
impact on large corps.
Pure food and Drug Act 1906
Prompted by The Jungle – muckrakers, list contents on
product- meat inspection act
Federal
Reserve Act- 1913- create Federal Reserve
Board, established national system, made currency
and credit more elastic
National Origins Act-1924- restrict south and eastern
Europeans (Catholic and Jewish)- also known as the
Quota system, significantly decrease the #s coming
in to the US.
Amendments
16th-
Income taxes (Wilson lowers tariffs)
17th Direct election of Senators
Robert Lafollette- give people voice in
politics, work against corrupt city bosses
Initiative, Referendum and recall
18th
Amendment – prohibition (21st
repealed)
19th Women’s right to vote
20th Terms in office
Great Depression/New Deal
National
Industrial Recovery ACT-1933 (Hoover)
Foster government-business cooperation
Businesses to regulate themselves through codes
of fair competition- did not succeed
Social
Secruty-1935- federal pension funded by
taxes- aging of Americans threatens system
Wagner Act-1935 – a.k.a.- National Labor
Relations Act, a.k.a. magna carta of labor, it
ensured workers the right to organize and
barging collectively
Rapid rise in labor union membership
WWII
Neutrality
acts- commitment to
isolationism after WWI, drew support form
Washington's Farewell Address
Cash and Carry
Lend Lease 1941- provide supplies to
allies, help GB resist Nazi Germany
Civil Rights
Civil
Rights act of 1964- outlawed
segregation
Voting rights act- outlawed poll taxes,
literacy tests and the grandfather clause
24th amendment abolition of poll taxes
Post WWII
Taft-Hartley
1947- curb power of unions,
believed unions were abusing powers and
would endanger national defense
industries- cold war era
Federal Highway Act 1956- crated
interstate highway system- key in
promoting suburban growth.
US immigration and nationality act of
1965- abolished the 1920s quota system