america laws passed

18th amendment

1920, warren harding, prohibition

immigration quota law

1921, warren harding, limited immigration to 350,000 a year

the immigration act/ national origins act

1924, calvin coolidge, percentage of immigrants from each country lowered from 3% to 2%

federal home loan bank act

1932, herbet hoover, lent money for people to pay off loans but only 3/ 41000 were accepted

reconstruction finance corporation

1932, herbet hoover, lent money to business and bailed out banks

the emergency banking act

1933, fdr, had federal inspections of banks to allow financially stable ones to reopen

the economy act

1933, fdr, cut government wages by 15% to spend on relief

beer and wine revenue act

1933, fdr, reversed 18th amendment, alcohol tax was used as relief

the reforestation relief act

1933, fdr, men earned $30 a month planting trees and flood prevention

the federal emergency relief administration act

1933, fdr, fund of $3 billion to help homeless and make soup kitchens

agricultural adjustment act

1933, fdr, gave money to encourage farmers not to over produce

tennessee valley authority act

1933, fdr, provided jobs in building dams

federal security act

1933, fdr, set rules for the stockmarket

homeowners relief act

1933, fdr, helped 300,000 with loans when struggling to pay mortgage

21st amendment

1933, fdr, officially reversed prohibition

indian reservation act

1934, fdr, indigenous americans had more control over their lives and land

social security act

1935, fdr, paid retired workers over 65 a government pension

neutrality act

1935-37, fdr, made to keep america out of war by illegalising selling weaponry to countries in war

house of representatives un-american committee

1938, fdr, formed to locate and fire any possible communists working within the government

fair employement practice comittee

1941, fdr, banned workplace discrimination

war production board

1942, fdr, converted peacetime industries to wartime factories

president’s committee on civil rights

1946, harry truman, the president is responsible for safeguarding and strengthening civil rights

brown v topeka board of education

1954, dwight eisenhower, chief judge declared segregation in schools must end

civil rights act

1957, dwight eisenhower, all african americans were given the right to vote but little enforcement

commission on equal employment opportunity

1964, jfk, enforcing federal laws about workplace discrimination

the equal pay act

1963, jfk,law that people in same job are paid the same

**the** civil rights act

1964, lbj, discrimination laws made illegal and banned in education, work and in public

voting right act

1965, lbj, banned literacy meaning within 12 months there were over 400,000 new black voters

medicare act

1965, lbj, provided free medicare for elderly and medicaid for the poor

immigration act

1965, lbj, ended racial quotas on immigration

interracial marriages legalised

1967, lbj, supreme court decision

fair housing act

1968, lbj, funded low income families with housing and prohibited discrimation concerning housing

educational amendment act

1972, richard nixon, bans sexual discrimination in schools