Sherman Antitrust Act - is a landmark U.S. law, passed in 1890, that outlawed trusts, Meat Inspection Act - Preparation of meat shipped over state lines subject to federal inspection., Pure Food and Drug Act - Legislation passed in 1906 preventing the adulteration and mislabeling of foods, pharmaceuticals, and specifically patent medicines., National Reclamation Act - Authorized the use of federal money to develop the west, it helped to protect national resources., Federal Reserve Act (1914) - the act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, which was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson., Child Labor Act - THE FIRST FEDERAL CHILD LABOR LAW, Clayton Antitrust Act  - The act defines unethical business practices, such as price-fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor, American with Disabilities Act 1990 - Signed by George H.W. Bush in 1990 to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities in employment and in public accommodations., Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 - A United States labor law signed by Clinton that requires employers to provide job protection and unpaid leave for employees with qualified medical and family reasons, Endangered Species Act - Requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to list species of plants and animals that are threatened with extinction, and then to take further steps to protect them., Civil Rights Act of 1968 - Passed to prevent discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin., Voting Rights Act of 1965 - This suspended literacy tests that had been used as a prerequisite for voting to limit the number of African American voters., Civil Rights Act of 1964 - This prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in hotels, restaurants, and all places of employment doing business with the federal government or engaged in interstate commerce; cut off federal aid to school districts with segregated schools and gave the federal government the power to register voters., Immigration Act of 1965 - This was aimed to be less biased than previous laws; each country was given an identical quota for its number of legal immigrants but immigration from Latin America was restricted for the first time., Economic Opportunity Act 1964 - This law created a new government office to administer programs established by the War on Poverty., Interstate Highway Act - Signed by President Eisenhower in 1956 to create a system of federal highways that connect large cities., Lend-Lease Act - Proposed by Roosevelt to sell, lease, or lend war materials to foregin allies necessary to the defense of the United States., Executive Order 9066 - Required Japanese Americans to move to internment camps away from the West Coast, where they lived in primitive and crowded conditions., Executive Order 9981 - Truman desegregated the U.S. military, Glass-Steagall Act - Created the FDIC and also known as the Banking Act; enacted as an emergency measure to address the bank failures of the 1930s., Agricultural Adjustment Act - In this New Deal “Recovery” legislation the government paid farmers to plant less in the hopes of increasing crop prices; in 1936, the Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional., Social Security Act - This New Deal “reform” legislation provided workers with a safety net of insurance and pensions; workers and their employers each paid contributions to fund these benefits., Mexican Repatriation Act - The law that President Hoover authorized to reduce unwanted laborers by forcibly sending more than half a million Mexican-Americans to Mexico., American Indian Citizenship Act - This federal act expanded the rights of Native Americans by granting them U.S. citizenship., Selective Service Act - Passed in 1917 to register and “draft” millions of Americans into the armed services., Homestead Act - Law encouraging white settlement of the “West”; stated any citizen could occupy 160 acres of government land IF the settler “improved” the land within 5 years., Dawes Act - Law which officially abolished Native American tribes and forced “Americanization”, nearly destroying any surviving Native American culture., Chinese Exclusion Act - First federal law restricting immigration into the United States and reflected American prejudices at the time; passed to reduce job competition., American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Direct government intervention in the economy whose provisions included federal investment in transportation, education, and renewable energy projects., USA Patriot Act 2001 - This federal legislation demonstrates the principle that the federal government can limit individual rights in times of national emergency.,

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