| A | B |
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| 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, |
