Date: 1651, 1660, 1663, 1673, 1696

Effects: Colonial trade would be

carried on English ships. Tightened restrictions(ex:

tobacco could only be sold to England.)

President: None Who/What was effected?

Colonist Established England as a

major sea power. Events that led to the act?

Seven Year’s War (England was in debt and needed money).

Date: 1764 Effects:

The act changed the tax rates levied on raw sugar and molasses imported from foreign colonies.

It also put new taxes on silk, wine, coffee, pimento & indigo.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

Seven Year’s War (England was in debt and needed money).

Date: March 1765 Effects:

Required stamps to be put on most printed materials such as deeds, posters, & licenses.

*First direct tax Britain placed on the colonist.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

Seven Year’s War (England was in debt and needed money).

Date: 1767 Effects:

Put new customs duties on glass, lead paper, paint, and tea imported into the colonies.

Also allowed officials to seize private property without following due process.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

Seven Year’s War (England was in debt and needed money).

Charles Townshend

Date: 1763 Effects:

Drew a line from north to south along the Appalachian Mountains and declared that colonists could not settle west of the line without the British government’s permission.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

Treaty of Paris(Britain was ceded all of North America east of the Mississippi River).

Dates: 1760, 1767 Effects:

Was a search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

The smuggling of goods.

James Otis: he opposed writs of assistance.

Date: 1765 Effects:

Forced the colonies to pay more for their own defense.

Example: if the colonies didn’t provide barracks for British troops, the act stated that troops could stay in taverns, inns, etc. and the colonies had to pay the rent.

President: None Who/What was effected?

colonist Events that led to the act?

French and Indian War: colonial assemblies did not pay for quartering for troops on march.

Tavern

Date: 1787 Effects:

Provided the basis for governing much of the western territory.

The law created new territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, which would be divided into 3-5 states.

Would give people living in the territory special rights.

President: None Who/What was effected?

Took Native American’s land, but expanded the colonist land.

Events that led to the act? Desire for land expansion

by the colonist.

Date: 1798 Effects:

4 total laws: 1) required immigrants to wait 14 years before becoming a citizen. 2-3) Gave the president the power to deport without trial any alien deemed dangerous. 4) Made it a federal law not to utter/print anything “false, scandalous, and malicious” against the government.

President: John Adams Who/What was effected?

Immigrants/aliens Events that led to the act?

No laws enforced on immigrants and aliens.

John Adams

Date: 1976 (Federal Land Policy and Management Act)

Effects: Recognized the value of our

Nation’s public lands and provided a framework in which they could be managed for the benefit of present and future generations.

President: Gerald Ford Who/What was effected?

Land Events that led to the law?

Rapid growth and economy changes in the west.

Date: May 1854 Effects:

Divided the land west of Missouri into two territories.

Popular sovereignty would allow the settlers of the new territories to decide if slavery would be legal there.

President: Franklin Pierce Who/What was effected?

People living Kansas/ Nebraska

Events that led to the act? The issue of dealing with

slavery in the new land/territory that was not included in the Missouri Compromise.

Date: 1862 Effects:

Provided legal method for settlers to acquire clear title to property in the West.

President: Abraham Lincoln Who/What was effected?

Settlers moving west Events that led to the act?

People wanting to expand west and move west (ex. for more farm land).

Date: 1862 Effects:

Allowed money to states to receive land for colleges.

President: Abraham Lincoln Who/What was effected?

Colleges Events that led to the act?

Not enough land for colleges.

Justin Smith Morrill

Date: 1864 Effects:

Required the majority of the adult white men in a former Confederate state to take an oath of constitutional convention to create a new state government.

President: Abraham Lincoln Who/What was effected?

Former Confederate states Events that led to the act?

Civil War

Benjamin Franklin Wade

Henry Davis

Date: 1863 Effects:

stated that a southern state could rejoin the Union only if 50 % of its registered voters swore an "ironclad oath" of allegiance to the United States.

The bill also established safeguards for black civil liberties but did not give blacks the right to vote.

President: Abraham Lincoln Who/What was effected?

Southern states Events that led to the act?

Civil War

Lincoln

Date: 1882 Effects:

Barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese in the USA from becoming citizens.

President: Chester Arthur Who/What was effected?

Potential Chinese immigrants & Chinese in the USA.

Events that led to the act? Large numbers of

Chinese Immigrants coming into the USA.

Date: 1921 Effects:

Established a quota which limited immigration from a specific nation to 3% of that country’s population living in the USA reported in the 1910 census.

President: Warren Harding Who/What was effected?

Incoming immigrants Events that led to the act?

Too many immigrants were coming to the USA

Red Scare

Date: 1890 Effects:

Aimed at limiting monopolies and cartels.

President: Benjamin Harrison Who/What was effected?

People/Businesses doing monopolies.

Events that led to the act? monopolies

John Sherman

Date: 1914 Effects:

Prohibits price discrimination

Prohibits sales based on exclusive dealing contract requirement that may have the effects of lessening competition.

President: Woodrow Wilson Who/What was effected?

Business people/workers Events that led to the act?

Discrimination in price

Date: 1913 Effects:

established Federal reserve banks to manage elastic currency and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the USA.

President: Woodrow Wilson Who/What was effected?

Banking systems in the USA Events that led to the act?

Panic of 1907 (Financial Panics)

Date: 1906 Effects:

Requires federal inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce and required the Ag. Dept. to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants.

President: Teddy Roosevelt Who/What was effected?

Meat companies Events that led to the Act?

Publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and other journalist publications.

Date: 1906 Effect:

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.

President: Teddy Roosevelt Who/What was effected?

All companies/ manufacturers

Events that led to the act? Journalist’s(Upton Sinclair)

revealings or exposes of companies.

Date: 1916 Effects:

Manages all national parks, national monuments and other conservation/ historical properties.

President: Woodrow Wilson Who/What was effected?

USA’s parks and forests Events that led to the creation?

Department of the Interior's (DOI) articles that praised the parks and forest of the USA.

Date: 1938 (Fair Labor Standards Act)

Effects: Set a minimum age for

employment and established other limits on child labor, such as maximum hours children could work.

President: FDR Who/What was effected?

Businesses Events that led to the act?

Children working many hours in dangerous, unhealthy conditions.

Dates: 1935 & 1939 Effects:

1935: Made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.

1939: Warring nations could buy weapons from the USA if they paid cash and carried the arms on their own ships.

President: FDR Who/What was effected?

everyone Events that led to the act?

People selling arms to other countries at war.

Date: 1940 Effects:

Allowed the USA to be able to lend/lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US.”

President: FDR Who/What was effected?

Other countries Events that led to the act?

Wanting to help aid other countries vital to the USA with arms.

Date: 1964 Effects:

Made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal.

Required employers to provide equal employment opportunities.

President: Lyndon Johnson Who/What was effected?

Everyone, especially African Americans

Events that led to the act? Racial and job

discrimination to African Americans.

Date: 1965 Effects:

Removed the right of states to impose restrictions on who could vote in elections.

President: Lyndon Johnson Who/What was effected?

everyone Events that led to the act?

States were refusing to let African Americans vote.