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Laws WWII - present
Laws passed from WWII through 80s
Question | Answer |
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Gave aid to public and parochial schools for books and special education programs | Elementary and Secondary Education Act |
Provided $300 million to college students and funds for training teachers; planned to use government aid to ensure a higher level of national security | National Defense Education Act |
Required automatic slashing of many budget debts with the goal to have a balanced budget by 1991 | Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act |
Agency in charge of stabilizing prices and rents; froze wages and prices and initiated a rationing program | Office of Price Administration |
Established to mediate disputes between management and workers to prevent strikes | War Labor Board |
Outlawed segregation in public areas; created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Committed the US to Vietnam and gave LBJ a "blank check" against the North Vietnamese forces | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Establish a permanent commission on civil rights with investigative powers; first bill passed since Reconstruction to protect blacks | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
Prohibited the use of literacy tests as a part of the voter registration process; federal examiners could register anyone qualified in the South | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Largest and most expensive public-works system in American history; contributed to suburban growth | Interstate Highway Act |
Required all organizations believed to be communists to report a list of their members and to hand over financial statements; excluded communists from working in defense plants | McCarran Internal Security Act |
Raised the top income-tax rate from 60% to 90% and added middle and lower income groups to the tax bracket in order to fund our efforts in WWII | Revenue Act of 1942 |
Imposed certain restrictions on the money and power of labor unions including a prohibition against mandatory closed shops | Taft-Hartley Act |