FCLE Landmark Legislation

All of the following were part of the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT:

• Allowed California to enter the union as a free state

• Ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• Included a strict, fugitive slave law

• Admitted New York as a slave state

This gave President Johnson the power to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia in 1964.

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• The New Deal

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Clean Air Act of 1970

This repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty.

• The New Deal

• Homestead Act of 1883

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964

This legislation authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from stationary and mobile sources.

• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

• Compromise of 1850

• Pendleton Act of 1883

• Clean Air Act of 1970

This provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.

• Compromise of 1850

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

• Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

This legislation established the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliation.

• The New Deal

• Pendleton Act of 1883

• Clean Air Act of 1970

• Homestead Act of 1862

This raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years and permitted the president to deport "aliens" as well as permitting their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime.

• Compromise of 1850

• The New Deal

• Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964

This legislation was to passed to detect and prevent terrorism in 2001

• The New Deal

• USA PATRIOT ACT

• Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

• Hpmestead Act

Legislation passed by President Johnson to help end poverty, reduce crime, abolish inequality and improve the environment.

• The Great Society

• The New Deal

• Compromise of 1850

• Homestead Act

This legislation provided rights and protections that make health coverage more fair and easy to understand. Also known as Obama Care.

• The New Deal

• Pendleton Act

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

• USA PATRIOT ACT