Legislation Flashcards
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What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Monroe Doctrine (1823) asserted U.S. opposition to European interference in the Americas.
What did the Missouri Compromise (1820) accomplish?
It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power in the Senate between free and slave states. It also prohibited slavery north of the 36°30’ line.
What was the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
It led to the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territories west of the Mississippi River, culminating in the Trail of Tears.
What were the key components of the Compromise of 1850?
It admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide on slavery via popular sovereignty, and included a harsher Fugitive Slave Act.
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) allow?
It allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery via popular sovereignty.
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act (1862)?
It provided 160 acres of land for cheap to encourage westward migration.
What did the Pacific Railway Act (1862) do?
It offered subsidies to railroad companies to build west.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)?
It declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territories were to be set free.
It did not ‘technically’ free slaves.
What did the Civil Rights Act (1866) become?
It became the 14th Amendment.
What was the Dawes Act (1887)?
It splintered Native American reservations into individual family homesteads, using similar figures to the Homestead Act.
What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904) assert?
It reaffirmed the Monroe Doctrine and expanded it by declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies.
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) do?
It suspended the immigration of all Chinese laborers.
What did the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) achieve?
It stopped discriminatory and predatory pricing practices.
What was the aim of the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
It aimed to limit anticompetitive practices, such as those institutionalized in cartels and monopolistic corporations.
What did the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) accomplish?
It closed the loopholes created by Sherman’s ambiguous language, which was used to turn Sherman against labor unions.
What was the Treaty of Versailles (1919) inspired by?
It was inspired by Wilson’s 14 Points and helped create the League of Nations; however, the US Senate did not ratify it.
What was the New Deal?
FDR’s plan to attack the Great Depression.
What was the purpose of the Bank Holiday?
All banks had to pass a government audit prior to reopening.
What does EDIC stand for?
It insures bank deposits.
What is the role of the SEC?
It regulates the stock market.
What is Social Security?
“Safety net” providing unemployment insurance, retirement benefits, and support for the disabled and orphaned.
What were the Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937-1939 designed to do?
They aimed to keep the US out of WW2, implementing a ‘cash and carry’ policy for non-military goods and later weapons.
What did the Lend-Lease Act (1941) allow?
It allowed the US to supply arms to the British, who could pay or return them after the war.
