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Legislation & Court
US History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| U.S Constitution | document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. |
| Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments to the US Constitution |
| 1st Amendment | prohibits any law limiting freedom with respect to religion, expression, peaceful assembly, or the right of citizens to petition the government |
| 2nd Amendment | Right to bear arms |
| 4th Amendment | protects against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 5th Amendment | no person may be compelled to testify against himself and that no person may be tried for a second time on a charge for which he has already been acquitted |
| 6th Amendment | guarantees a citizen a speedy trial, a fair jury, an attorney if the accused person wants one |
| 7th Amendment | Trial by jury |
| 8th Amendment | No cruel or unusual punishments |
| 10 Amendment | power that is not given to the federal government is given to the people or the states. |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished Slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | Gave former slaves citizenships, and equal protection of the laws. |
| 15th Amendment | Gave former slaves the right to vote. |
| Pacific Railroad Act | series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" |
| Homestead Act | Signed document by Abe. Lincoln which brought immigrants to the west to claim free land for homesteading. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | banned the immigration of unskilled laborers from China |
| Munn v. Illinois | The Munn case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders including railroads and is commonly regarded as a milestone in the growth of federal government regulation |
| Interstate Commerce Act | federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices |
| Dawes Act | Indian tribal land divided it into allotments for individual Indians |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | prohibits every contract, combination or conspiracy between two or more companies which exerts an unreasonable restraint on trade or commerce. |
| 16th Amendment | allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans |
| 17th Amendment | gives voters the power to directly elect their senators. |
| 18th Amendment | banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. |
| 19 Amendment | provides men and women with equal voting rights. |
| Pendleton Act | passed to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States |
| Interstate Commerce Act | designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | federal law passed during the era of the Progressive Movement to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies |
| Open Door policy | open communication, feedback, and discussion about any matter of importance to an employee. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union after the Venezuela Crisis |
| Executive Order 9066 | ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas. |
| Federal Reserve Act of 1913 | Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. |
| Selective Service Act | authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. |
| Social Security Act | enacted in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions |
| Schenck v. United States | a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. |
| Scopes Trial | American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, |
| Sacco and Vanzetti Trials | were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death |
| The New Deal TVA WPA CCC | improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. |
| Cash and Carry | It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. ... However, the sale of war materials was not allowed. |
| Lend-Lease | as the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. |
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