FCLE Landmark Executive Actions

This provided for the independence of Cuba from Spain.

• Treaty of Paris of 1898

• Versailles Treaty

• Louisiana Purchase of 1803

• Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821

This executive action doubled the size of the United States when territory was bought from France.

• Treaty of Paris of 1898

• Pendleton Act of 1883

• Compromise of 1850

• Louisiana Purchase of 1803

In this landmark executive action the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821

• Treaty of Paris

• Pendleton Act of 1883

This was done by President Lincoln in 1861, which allowed military authorities to arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations.

• Suspension of habeas corpus

• Affirmative Action

• Presidential War Powers

• Military desegregation

This executive action by President Roosevelt during WWII, was the forced relocation by the United States government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps.

• Affirmative Action

• The Treaty of Paris of 1898

• Japanese-American Internment

• The Homestead Act of 1850

In 1948, President Truman signed an executive order that:

• Freed the slaves

• desegregated the military

• bought land from France

• Made Hawaii a U.S. territory

A set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants and remedy the results of prior discrimination.

• Habeas Corpus

• Selective Service

• Military desegregation

• Affirmative Action

The enforcement of civil rights-related supreme court decisions accomplished the following.

• protected civil rights and liberties by striking down laws that violated the Constitution

• gave the president more power

• desegregated the military

• established selective service

A federal law intended to check the United States President's powers to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.

• Affirmative Action

• Compromise of 1850

• The War Powers Resolution of 1973.

• Homestead Act of 1862