1. Amendments and Key Legislation
Theme #4

2. Key Legislation before 1750
Magna Carta (1215)
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)
Navigation Acts (1650s)

3. Revolution-era Legislation
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1764)
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Coercive Acts (1774) and the Quebec Act (1774)

4. Early U.S. History Land Ordinance of 1785 Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Judiciary Act of 1789
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Embargo Act of 1807
Non-Intercourse Act (1809)
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)

5. Antebellum America Missouri Compromise (1820)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Tariff of Abominations (1828) and the Tariff of 1832
Force Bill (1833)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

6. Civil War Era and Western Settlement
Homestead Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Reconstruction Acts ( )
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

7. “Gilded Age” and Progressivism
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (1883)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Elkins Act (1903) and Hepburn Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)

8. Key Immigration Legislation
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Immigration Act of 1903 (“Anarchist Exclusion Act”)
Immigration Act of 1917 and Immigration Act of 1918
Emergency Quota Act (1921)
National Origins Act (1924)
Immigration Act of 1965

9. WWI-era Legislation Selective Service Act (1917) Espionage Act of 1917
Sedition Act of 1918
Standard Time Act (1918)
Volstead Act (1919)

10. Legislation involving Labor
Erdman Act (1898)
National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (“Wagner Act”)
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII  “EEOC”)

11. Depression-era Legislation
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (1933)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Social Security Act (1935)

12. World War Two and Early Cold War
Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)
Neutrality Act of 1939 (“Cash and Carry Act”)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944
National Security Act of 1947
McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
Federal Highway Act of 1956
National Defense Education Act (1958)

13. 1960s and Beyond Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
Immigration Act of 1965
Environmental Acts (1970s)
War Powers Act (1973)
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
No Child Left Behind Act (2001)

14. Bill of Rights (1791) 1st Amendment 2nd Amendment 3rd Amendment
4th Amendment
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
8th Amendment
9th Amendment
10th Amendment

15. Amendments 11-17 11th Amendment 12th Amendment 13th Amendment

16. Amendments 18-27 18th Amendment 19th Amendment 20th Amendment
21st Amendment
22nd Amendment
23rd Amendment
24th Amendment
25th Amendment
26th Amendment
27th Amendment