Question | Answer |
1649 law enacted in maryland guaranteeing religious freedom for all christians | act of toleration |
1916 imposed the 8-hour day on interstate railways and established a federal commission to study railroads | adamson act |
1798 a series of four laws passed by a federalist-controlled congress in anticipation of war with france during the administration of john adams | alien and sedition acts |
1933 established the FDIC | Banking act (Glass-steagall act) |
1935 reorganized federal reserve board and FDIC | banking act |
1882 prohibited this race's immigrant laborers from entering the us for 10 years | chinese exclusion act |
1914 intended to plug loopholes in the sherman anti trust act of 1890; prohibited price discrimination and interlocking directorates | clayton anti-trust act |
1924 reparation following ww1 | dawes plan |
1887 indian tribes lost legal standing, and their land was divided among tribal members | dawes severalty act |
1766 stated that the king and parliament had the right and power to make laws that were binding on the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" | declaratory act |
1807 forbade exports from american ports | embargo act |
1900 established a government for puerto rico | foraker act |
1833 passed by congress in response to south carolina's passage of a nullification ordinance | force act (bill) |
1985 revised budgeting procedures and required an end to the federal defecit | Gramm-rudman act |
1939 law forbidding federal executive employees from participating in and contributing to any present or congressional election campaigns | Hatch act |
1906 strengthened the power of the ICC | hepburn act |
1862 gave 160 acres in the west to any adult citizen who headed a family and who had not fought against the union during the civil war | homestead act |
1887 set up the ICC (interstate commerce commission) all railroad charges should be fair and reasonable | Interstate commerce act |
1774 five laws passed by the british parliament in response to the colonial defiance of the tea tax and boston tea party | intolerable acts (coersive acts) |
1917 gave puerto ricans us citizenship | jones act |
1789 created the office of attorney general, organized the supreme court, and established a system of lower federal courts | judiciary act |
1941 gave fdr the authority to loan war material to any nation whose defense was considered necessary for us national security | lend-lease act |
1810 established to motivate great britain and france to end illegal seizures of american commercial vessels | macon's bill no. 2 |
1862 established land grant colleges | morril land grant act |
1935 prohibited unfair labor practices; created the NLRB | national labor relations act (wagner act) |
1651 1660 1663 1673 parliament prevented the us from trading with other countries | navigation acts |
1883 established a civil service commision, helped dismantle the spoils system; came about because of garfield's assassination | pendleton act |
1901 gave the us the right to intervene in cuban affairs and to lease naval bases | platt amendment |
1906 resulted from the publication of The Jungle | pure food and drug act/ meat inspection act |
1817 limited naval armaments on the great lakes; treaty between britain and the us | rush-bagot agreement |
1890 to break up monopolies | sherman anti-trust act |
1940 makes it a crime to advocate or teach the overthrow of the us government | smith act |
1935 provided unemployment and old age insurance financed by both the employer and employee | social security act |
1765 required a tax on all legal documents, newspapers, almanacs, etc. | stamp act |
1947 outlawed the closed shop, the practice of hiring only union members | taft-hartley act |
1898 the us disclaimed any attempt to annex cuba | teller amendment |
1867 repealed in 1887 said that a president could not remove without the senate's approval an officeholder appointed with the consent of the senate; what andrew johnson violated | tenure of office act |
1919 law providing for the enforcement of prohibition | volstead act |
1965 expanded the powers of the federal government to eliminate discrimination in voting | voting rights act |
1864 assured congressional power to set up a procedure for readmission of the confederate states into the union; vetoed by lincoln | wade-davis bill |
1973 required the president to inform congress within 48 hours of military action in hostile areas | war powers act |