Important pieces of legislation (Laws) Tools A B Homestead Act 160 acres of land,small fee, farm for 5 years, encouraged settlement, 1862 Kansas-Nebraska Act 18541 use popular sovereignty when deciding slavery in the territory Jim Crow Laws laws that established segregated facilities meat Inspection act 1906 Progressive law- inspection of meat, cleaner plants Pure Food and Drug act 1906 progressive law- label ingredients on products Chinese Exclusion Act No Chinese immigration for 10 years, 1882, then renewed 1920s Immigration laws established quotas for new entrants, discriminatory towards Southern and Eastern Europeans Interstate Commerce Act 1887 1887- government regulated the railroads-no pools, no rebates,no unfair charges Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 made trusts that ruined competition illegal, but hard to enforce due to its wording War Powers Act- 1973 President can only send troops into a hostile region for 60 days unless Congress approves Social Security Act- 1935 money deducted from pay to go into fund for retirement, disabilities, unemployed Clayton Antitrust Act progressive law that defined business abuses more clearly, to break up trusts more Civil rights ACt of 1964 discrimination in jobs and facilities is illegal, ended segregation in public Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the literacy test Federal Reserve system Progressive reform, new banking system to regulate credit, money supply Head Start Program of LBJ's supporting pre-school education Medicare paying into a fund to assist with medical costs when you retire Pendleton Act replaced the spoils system with a civil service exam to obtain more qualified workers Reconstruction Acts military occupation of the South, 14th Am,