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Laws, Agencies, Amendments US History STAAR
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Loans that helped veterans buy homes and go to college.
Hawley Smoot Act
Manhattan Project
G.I. Bill
Social Security Act
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Over 121,807 Japanese, German, & Italian Americans placed in internment camps during WWII.
Executive Order 9066
Civil Rights Voting Act
Civil Rights Act 1964
Chinese Exclusion Act
3
The first ten amendments of the US Constitution are known as this.
State's Rights
Freedom Rights
The Bill of Rights
Trial By Jury Rights
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Allows for letting citizens put a law on the ballot for voting.
Recall
referendum
Impeachment
Initiative Petition
5
Mexican Americans right to trial by jury of their peers.
Miranda v Arizona
Hernandez v Texas
Edgewood ISD vs Kirby
Delgado v Bastrop ISD
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This law eliminated discrimination in higher education; best known for impact on sports.
Title III
Title IV
Title VI
Title IX
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This prevents monopolies and trusts from taking unfair advantage of competition.
H.U.A.C.
F.D.I.C.
Homestead Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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1946 USSC case that ended segregation of Mexican Americans in public schools.
Tinker v. Des Moines
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Westminister
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Fear of job competition and low wages resulted in barring West Coast immigration from Asia.
Social Security Act
Endangered Species Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
USA Patriot Act
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New Deal legislation;aid to retirees,unemployed,disabled people,families with dependent kids.
Quotas Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
U.S.A. Patriot Act
Social Security Act
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When a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people.
Recall
Referendum
Impeachment
Initiative Petition
12
This federal law forbids segregation in public places.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Civil Rights Act 1964
Civil Rights Voting Act
Morrill Act
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This amendment passed in 1971, gave all 18 yr. olds the right to vote in the USA.
27th
21st
26th
18th
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During WWII, citizens loaned $ to the Government at 2.9% interest to pay for WWII expenses.
War Bonds
Interstate Commerce Act
Freedom Bonds
Victory Gardens
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This amendment is known as the citizenship amendment.
14th
13th
18th
15th
16
1st amend freedom of speech can be censored if there is a clear and present danger.
White v Regester
Delgado v Bastrop ISD
Schenck v US
Bakke v California
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Colonist in America were tired of "no taxation without representation," pulled away from Eng.
1770
1776
1787
1842
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Changes in school finance in Texas to help poorer districts. "Robin Hood" plan.
White v Regester
Marbury v Madison
Edgewood ISD v Kirby
Delgado v Bastrop ISD
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Quota system in the USA that limits how many immigrants can be admitted yearly in USA.
cChinese Exclusion Act
American Indian Citizenship Act
National Origins Act 1924
Vietnamese Exclusion Act
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Procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people.
Impeachment
Referendum
Initiative petition
Recall
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The State can't require parents to make their children attend school past 16;1/14th Amendments
White v. Regester
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Tinker v. Des Moines
Wisconsin v. Yoder
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This amendment gave all free men, not women, the right to vote.
16th
15th
21st
18th
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Passed in 1909, this amendment set up the federal income tax system in the USA.
19th
15th
16th
14th
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This amendment passed in 1912, determines who sits in Congress.
17th
19th
18th
21st
25
Anti-terrorism act that allowed wiretaps, search of business records & surveillance activities.
War Powers Act
Contract With America
USA Patriot Act
Office of War Information
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This law protects bank deposits if the banks fails and goes out of business.
Securities and Exchange Commission, S.E.C.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. F.D.I.C.
Homestead Act
Interstate Commerce Commission, I.C.C.
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1973 law limiting a president's right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Homestead Act
War Powers Act
League of Nations
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This amendment that put an end to slavery in the US.
14th
18th
13th
15th
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TX Supreme Crt. required changes in school finance to increase funding for poorer districts.
White v. Regester
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
Tinker v. Des Moines
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This regulates railroads to prevent unfair shipping rates between states.
Interstate Commerce Act
Federal Reserve Act
Homestead Act
US Patriot Act
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Can not segregate Mexican American school children in Texas 1948
Delgado vs Bastrop ISD
Mendez v Westminister
Miranda v Arizona
Schenck v US
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USSC said separate but equal law facilities unonstitutional; cannot isolate students racially.
Sweatt v. Painter
Tinker v. Des Moines
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Mendez v. Westminister
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Court case in 1954 overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, making desegregation the law of the land.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Sweatt v. Painter
Mendez v. Westminister
Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka
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What court case in 1896, established "separate but equal" was the law of the land.
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Delgado v Bastrop ISD Texas
Plessy v Ferguson
Roe v Wade
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This law passed in 1924, granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the USA/
NAFTA
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Executive Order 9069
American Indian Citizenship Act
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Criminal suspects must be warned of their rights before questioned by police.
Marbury v Madison
Wisconsin v Yoder
Miranda v Arizona
Bakke v California
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1954 USSC that said Mexican Americans were entitled to a trial by a jury of their peers.
Sweatt v. Painter
Plessy v. Ferguson
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, Texas
Hernandez v. Texas
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1947 international trade agreement lowered trade barriers;created World Trade Organization.
NAFTA
G.A.T.T.
Reagonomics
Warsaw Pact
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This amendment passed in 1920, gave all women the right to vote in the USA.
15th
21st
10th
19th
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Theory that if you cut taxes, the economy would grow; "trickle down economics."
G.A.T.T.
Affirmative Action
Reaganomics
Title IX
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Protects Americans from dangerous medicines and requires truth in labeling of products.
American Recovery Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Homestead Act
G.A.T.T.
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This act said the land was yours if you lived on it for 5 yrs. and made improvements on it.
US Patriot Act
Civil Rights Act 1964
Federal Reserve Act
Homestead Act
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Parents can homeschool their kids if schools are teaching against their religious principles.
Wisconsin v Yoder
Plessy v Ferguson
White v Register
Bakke v California
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Upheld affirmative action; race can be a factor in college admissions. Not a popular decision.
Bakke v California
Schenck v US
White v Regester
Plessy v Ferguson
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This amendment banned the manufacturing,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
17th
18th
15th
14th
46
Students had theright to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War; freedom of speech.
White v. Regester
Plessy v. Ferguson
Tinker v. Des Moines 1969
Wisconsin v. Yoder
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This law ban the use of poll taxes and literacy test as requirements for voting.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Civil Rights Voting Act 1965
Civil Rights Act 1964
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
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Enacted in response to the Great Recession;saved jobs/created jobs;infrastructure built/relief.
Title IX
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Affirmative Action
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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This policy was designed to correct the effects of past discriminations.
Civil Rights Act
Jim Crow Laws
Affirmative Action
Civil Rights Voting Act
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Treaty signed in 1993 that removed trade barriers between US, Canada, and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement
G.A.T.T.
Title IX
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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This commission was established to prevent fraud in the stock market.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
G.I. Bill
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel negotiated by Pres. Carter after 6 Day War.
Camp David Accord 1979
USA Patriot Act
NAFTA
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Date the US Constitution was written.
1776
1787
1770
1803
