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Famous Acts in APUSH
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| law enacted in Maryland guaranteeing religious freedom for all Christians | Act of Toleration |
| imposed the eight hour day on interstate railways and established a federal commission to study railroads | Adamson Act |
| 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 |
| established the FDIC | Glass-Steagall Act |
| reorganized Federal Reserve Board and FDIC | Banking Act |
| prohibited Chinese immigrant laborers from entering the US for ten years | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| intended to plug loopholes in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890; prohibited price discrimination and interlocking directorates | Clayton Anti-Trust Act |
| reparation following WWI | Dawes Plan |
| Indian tribes lost legal standing, and their land was divided among tribe members | Dawes Severalty Act |
| 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 |
| forbade exports from American ports | Embargo Act |
| established a government for Puerto Rico | Foraker Act |
| passed by Congress in response to South Carolina's passage of a nullification ordinance | Force Act |
| revised budgeting procedures and required an end to the federal deficit | Gramm-Rudman Act |
| law forbidding federal executive employees from participating in and contributing to any present or congressional election campaigns | Hatch Act |
| strengthened the power of the ICC | Hepburn Act |
| 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 |
| set up the ICC (interstate commerce commission)- all railroad charges would be fair and reasonable | Interstate Commerce Act |
| five laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the colonial defiance of the tea tax and boston tea party | Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) |
| gave Puerto Ricans US citizenship | Jones Act |
| created the office of attorney general, organized the supreme court, and established a system of lower federal courts | Judiciary Act |
| gave FDR the authority to loan war material to any nation whose defense was considered necessary for US national security | Lend-Lease Act |
| established to motivate Great Britain and France to end illegal seizures of American commercial vessels | Macon's Bill No. 2 |
| established land-grant colleges | Morrill Act (Land-Grant Act) |
| prohibited unfair labor practices; created the NLRB | National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) |
| Parliament prevented the US from trading with other countries | Navigation Acts |
| established a Civil Service Commission; helped dismantle the spoils system; came about because of Garfield's assassination | Pendleton Act |
| gave the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and to lease naval bases | Platt Amendment |
| resulted from the publication of The Jungle | Pure Food and Drug Act/Meat Inspection Act |
| limited naval armaments on the Great Lakes; treaty between Britain and the US | Rush-Bagot Agreement |
| set up to break up monopolies | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| makes it a crime to advocate or teach the overthrow of the US government | Smith Act |
| provided unemployment and old age insurance financed by both the employer and employee | Social Security Act |
| required a tax on all legal documents, newspapers, almancas, etc | Stamp Act |
| outlawed the closed shop, the practice of hiring only union members | Taft-Hartley Act |
| the US disclaimed any attempt to annex Cuba | Teller Amendment |
| said that the president could not remove without the Senate's approval of an officeholder appointed with the consent of the Senate; what Andrew Johnson violated | Tenure of Office Act |
| law providing for the enforcement of Prohibition | Volstead Act |
| expanded the powers of the federal government to eliminate discrimination in voting | Voting Rights Act |
| assured Congressional power to set up a procedure for readmission of the confederate states into the Union; vetoed by Lincoln | Wade-Davis Bill |
| required the president to inform Congress within 48 hours of military action in hostile areas | War Powers Act |
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